Martin, I don't agree. This has nothing to do with the MIS managers role, I am simply expressing my view that either the rejection of our data return should have been more obvious – perhaps an automated email to the person submitting it, informing them that it had been rejected and why or that [...]

One of or MIS staff made a tiny, tiny mistake on 15th November. He submitted an F05 file with an incorrect sequence number. Two further files were then submitted on 16th and 19th November with significant additional results recorded – both fully validated and error free with correct sequence numbers. The problem [...]

I don't think that they will be QCF'd; they are 'A' levels after all.  (8-) Your adults would, of course, have to undertake the requisite number of AS/A2s to qualify for a full L2 or full L3 for them to be priority learners and thus help secure your future ALR allocation!