Will providers be able to see which students have completed the survey and which haven’t?

No, we can’t show which students have completed the survey. This is for two main reasons: 1) Data protection rules mean that we need to keep this confidential, and 2) We may not initially know which students have taken part, as it depends on what information they give us at the baseline stage. We ask …

While you say that we can target all learners on selected courses, even if they are not all GLA-AEB funded learners – if there are only very few students that would be truly eligible, would it be ok to just target those ones? I.e. if only 1 student in a class of 15 is likely to be eligible, would it be acceptable to just ask that one student to complete?

In that case, yes, it is absolutely fine to target specific learners if this is possible and you are happy to do so. While we can remove any learners from analysis who are ineligible later on, if the proportion of ineligible learners in a class is likely to be high then it is beneficial to …

How long will the survey take learners to complete?

Based on analysis previous survey completes, it should take learners around 10-12 minutes on average, but we recognise that some learners may take longer than this. Learners can complete the survey in stages if they enter their email address at the start, as this enables us to send them a new link which they can …

What should we do if we have both GLA AEB-funded learners and other learners (e.g. self-funded, ESFA AEB-funded)?

If you have a class which includes both GLA AEB-funded learners and other learners (e.g. self-funded or ESFA AEB-funded learners), you can invite all the learners to complete the survey (to avoid having to distinguish between different types of learners on the same course). IFF will suppress any ineligible survey completes from the main data …

What should we do if learners have issues completing the survey?

The survey has been designed to be as straightforward as possible, but we recognise that some learners may have difficulties completing it due to language or literacy issues or lack of digital skills to get online. Learners can complete the online survey in 13 languages: English, Arabic, Bengali, Kurdish Sorani, Polish, Portuguese, Somali, Spanish, Russian, …