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Published 23 March 2022
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This publication is available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/advanced-learner-loans-funding-rules-2022-to-2023/advanced-learner-loans-funding-rules-2022-to-2023
This document sets out the advanced learner loans (ALL) (loans) funding rules for the 2022 to 2023 funding year (1 August 2022 to 31 July 2023). The performance management rules will be included in version 2 of the rules due to be published in May 2022. These rules apply to all providers of education and training who hold a loans agreement/contract with the Secretary of State for Education acting through the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA). This loans agreement/contract allows providers to receive loans payments from the Student Loans Company (SLC) on behalf of learners and loans bursary payments from the ESFA.
These rules do not apply to adult education budget (AEB) funding, apprenticeships or to education and training services funded by the European Social Fund (ESF). These rules are available on GOV.UK.
These rules reflect the provisions of the Further Education Loans Regulations 2012. The regulations take precedence over the funding rules.
This document forms part of the terms and conditions of funding and you must read it in conjunction with your loans agreement/contract. You must operate within the terms and conditions of the loans agreement/contract, these rules and the individualised learner record (ILR) specification. If you do not, you are in breach of your loans agreement/contract with us.
ESFA reserve the right to make changes to these rules.
This document contains the rules relevant to provision funded through loans and the loans bursary. Some of the rules are accompanied by a shaded box explaining the context.
We have included a glossary to explain technical terms.
The term ‘we’ refers to ESFA.
When we refer to ‘you’ or ‘providers’, this includes colleges, higher education institutions, training organisations, local authorities and employers who receive funding through a loans agreement/contract, to deliver education and training. We will use the generic term ‘you’ or ‘provider’ unless the requirements only apply to a specific provider type.
We publish an Education and Skills Contract/agreement which will include a loans facility for eligible loans providers. This facility enables providers to offer loan-funded provision to individuals, and to receive payments from the SLC on behalf of individuals.
We use the terms ‘individual’ and ‘learner’ to cover all those who fund their education or training with a loan, and where appropriate who receive support through the loans bursary fund.
We use the term ‘provision’ and ‘qualifications’ to refer to all qualifications designated for loans, which will either be a qualification from the Ofqual regulated qualifications framework (RQF) or an Access to Higher Education Diploma recognised and regulated by the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA).
If you have a specific query on the funding rules, please use the enquiry form or speak to your DfE contract manager.
We have highlighted the main changes in the table below.
Please note this is not an exhaustive list of all the changes. You must refer to the main documents for the definitive rules which apply to all providers of education and training holding a loans facility agreement and loans bursary fund agreement with the Secretary of State for Education acting through ESFA.
Advanced learner loans provide a source of fees and support to help people aged 19 and over undertake general and technical qualifications at levels 3, 4, 5 and 6.
By taking out a loan, a learner is taking direct responsibility and financial liability for their learning. In return you are obliged, as part of your agreement with the learner, to deliver high-quality learning and support to enable the learner to successfully achieve their desired outcome.
It is important that learners receive all the key information about what the loan is for and are signposted to sources of further information to help them decide if they wish to apply for a loan. It is also imperative that they have information in the Learning and Funding Information Letter about the qualification, your fee and actual loan amount for their qualification.
Loans are not means tested.
Loans are available to eligible learners who are:
On receipt of a learner’s loan application, SLC is responsible for assessing whether a learner is eligible.
More information on learner eligibility is contained in Part 2 of Schedule 1 of the Further Education Loans Regulations 2012 which sets out the categories of eligibility to qualify for an advanced learner loan. In the event of uncertainty over a particular category of eligibility, the regulations take precedence over these rules.
There are additional eligibility criteria for offenders. See annex 2 learner eligibility criteria for more information.
For 19 to 23 year olds undertaking level 3 qualifications:
Please contact [email protected] if you need advice on a previous qualification’s designation.
The level 3 free courses for jobs (previously known as the National Skills Fund level 3 offer) is available to support adults aged 24 and above without an existing full level 3 or equivalent qualification. This offer is also available to adults aged 19 to 23 alongside the 19 to 23 legal entitlement offer. From the 1 April 2022 level 3 free courses for jobs offer was expanded to include all adults who meet the definition of ‘low wage’ or ‘unemployed’ outlined in the AEB funding and performance rules 2021 to 2022 who already have a full level 3 or higher achieved prior to 1 April 2021 or who have achieved a short qualification after 1 April 2021. Full details of the offer can be found in the National Skills Fund guidance.
For adults aged 19 and above undertaking level 3 qualifications:
you must check a learner’s eligibility to full funding under the level 3 free courses for jobs and record that you have done this in the learner file before they make their loan application. The criteria can be found in the AEB funding rules 2021 to 2022
if they have not exercised their eligibility to full funding under the level 3 free courses for jobs for a full level 3 you must make them aware of this offer
If you have an AEB funding agreement you must not offer a loan funded place to a learner who is able to undertake their chosen qualification with you by accessing the level 3 free courses for jobs listed above. Should this situation occur, you must perform a fee-charged change of circumstance through SLC’s learner provider portal and reduce their fee liability to zero.
SLC will recover the overpayment from you from future loans payments. If you have insufficient loan payments, SLC will ask you to repay any overpayment directly.
If you only hold a loans agreement/contract and are unable to offer a level 3 free courses for jobs place, and a learner wishes to exercise their eligibility to the offer, you must signpost the learner to the National Careers Service to obtain information about alternative providers.
If a learner chooses to apply for a loan rather than exercising their eligibility to the level 3 free courses for jobs offer, either where they have access to funding with you or, if not, at an alternative provider as above you must make them aware that this may mean that they give up their right to exercise their eligibility to this funding in future and evidence this in their learner file.
Where a learner has achieved a level 3 qualification, that was at the time they started or is still classed as a full level 3, they can enrol on any subsequent level 3 qualification and apply for a loan or pay for their own learning. Learners may also be eligible for funding for additional level 3 qualifications through the level 3 free courses for jobs and you should check their eligibility as detailed above.
Please contact [email protected] if you need advice on a previous qualification’s designation.
You can only make offers of loan funded learning and receive loan payments from SLC on behalf of learners if we have given you a loans agreement/contract, you have sufficient headroom in your allocation, and a learner has applied for a loan which has been approved by the SLC.
You must not pay, or engage a broker, or any third party, to recruit learners who are considering funding their provision with a loan, on your behalf.
You must directly deliver provision to learners who are funding their provision with a loan.
You must not subcontract loans provision. The definition of sub-contractor is given in the glossary.
If your organisation plans to merge with another provider holding a loans agreement/contract you must:
You must not deliver any loans-funded provision outside England.
You must advise all learners of your fees and charging policy in advance of their decision to apply for a loan.
We do not expect that you need to charge more than the maximum loan amount as show on find a learning aim service and in the ESFA list of qualifications for public funding document. For information about how the maximum amount of the loan is set, please refer to ALL: maximum loan amounts for advanced learner loans designated qualifications 2022 to 2023.
A learner can only apply for a loan to cover the tuition fee element of their provision, including all costs and charges for items without which they cannot complete their qualification.
You can:
You cannot:
A learner will only be eligible to apply for a loan that is either equal to (or less than) the lesser of:
The minimum loan value a learner can apply for is £300.
The Secretary of State for Education, acting through ESFA, is responsible for designating the qualifications eligible to be funded through a loan. The criteria set out in the qualification funding approval manual include the following:
The full list of designated qualifications is in the learning aims section of the ESFA list of qualifications approved for public funding and the find a learning aim service.
You must check on the ESFA list of qualifications or find a learning aim service that the qualification is valid for new starts on the date that the learner is due to start. You are also responsible for checking with the awarding organisation body that the qualification is available.
You must have direct centre approval and, where appropriate, direct qualification approval from the appropriate awarding organisation for the regulated qualifications you are offering. These qualifications must be designated for loans and you must deliver them in line with the qualification specification and guidance set out by the awarding organisation.
Loans cannot be used to fund only components of qualifications or to achieve a qualification on a unit by unit basis.
You must provide accurate unique learner number (ULN) information to awarding organisations and ensure all information you use to register learners for qualifications is correct. More information about the Learning Records Service is available.
Where a learner takes out a loan for an Access to HE diploma, completes it and progresses to and completes a Student Finance England fundable HE course; designated under the Education (Student Support) Regulations 2011 at level 4, 5 or 6, the outstanding balance of the loan for the Access to HE diploma will be written off.
The standard entitlement is that learners can access up to 4 loans, which they can take out either one after the other or at the same time. You are responsible for considering the ability of a learner who states an intention to apply for multiple loans for concurrent study.
Learners will need to apply for a loan for each qualification.
Within this entitlement a learner may apply for:
A learner can study a full A level by either enrolling on an A level or enrolling on an AS level qualification and then progressing to an A level qualification.
Where a learner intends to study towards, and sit:
If a learner enrols on a combination of A levels and AS levels, they will be able to apply for loans to undertake up to 4 full A levels, subject to the overall limits for each learning aim type, outlined above.
You can access further information, including illustrative examples on recording A and AS levels in our ILR provider support manual.
A learner could have prior learning that has been previously accredited by an awarding organisation or could be formally recognised and count towards a qualification. If this is the case, you must:
Where a learner undertakes a subsidiary diploma and progresses to an extended diploma at the same level, the progression can be considered as a single loan and the loan amount amended through the change of circumstance (change of learning aim) process within the maximum loan amount available for the extended diploma (stage 4, in learning, if a learner’s circumstances change):
Where a learner has previously undertaken a subsidiary diploma funded with a loan and wishes to undertake an extended diploma at the same level and in the same subject at a later date, they can apply for another loan within their overall entitlement to 4 loans. In this scenario, providers must reduce the fee charged to the learner for the extended diploma to take account of the prior study of the subsidiary diploma.
There are 5 key stages in the learner journey that must be followed:
Before offering a loans funded place to a learner you must:
You must issue a learning and funding information letter to all potential learners to whom you have offered a learning place and who may seek a loan for their fees. The letter must provide the learner with the information they need:
You must use the standard template for the letter and include:
The maximum loan amount available for the qualification as published on the learning aims section of the find a learning aim service and in the ESFA list of qualifications for public funding document. You must not complete a loan application online or in paper form on behalf of a learner or influence a learner’s decision to apply for a loan.
You must retain a copy of the completed learning and funding information letter for each learner in the learner file, and if applicable, a copy of an updated learning and funding information letter when there is a change to a learner’s qualification or fees.
There is a separate learning and funding information letter and loan application process for learners in custody, see annex 2.
SLC will assess a learner’s loan application against the eligibility criteria and if approved, and the learner attends the learning, they will make scheduled loan payments to you on behalf of the learner.
SLC will give you access to their learning provider portal (an interactive web-based service that will act as the main channel of communication between you and SLC). You will be able to see the status of a learner’s loan application using the portal.
You must provide SLC with the information they need to administer loans in line with SLCs service standards. The information provided to SLC must match the information you report in the ILR when the learner commences their learning. We will monitor the data reported in the ILR and the data held by SLC and take action where we find discrepancies.
When a learner’s loan application has been approved and they have started their learning you must confirm the learner’s attendance to SLC through the learning provider portal at the appropriate time, including initially after 14 days on course and at the quarterly attendance confirmation points thereafter. You must also update the learner record in the ILR by clicking on the ADL flag.
The start date is when activity directly related to the qualification has begun. This would not include enrolment, induction, prior assessment, diagnostic testing or similar activity.
The planned duration of the qualification must be reported accurately to SLC and in the ILR. If the planned duration is found to have been reported incorrectly to SLC, you must notify SLC so they can correct the payment profile. You must not change the planned end date you report in the ILR simply because the learner goes beyond it.
You can only confirm a learner has started their learning after 2 weeks (14 days) of attendance and you must only report the ALL indicator in the ILR once the learner has been approved for a loan.
Learners become liable for their loan 2 weeks after their start date; this is referred to as the ‘initial liability point’ and will either be:
two weeks from the qualification start date, as shown on the loan application form or
two weeks after the learner started their learning if they started at a later date than the one given on the loan application form (in this case you must inform SLC about the change to the start date through the learning provider portal before you confirm the learner’s attendance – please refer to SLCs learning provider portal user guide). You must accurately record the learner’s unique learner number (ULN) in the learning provider portal before you can confirm their attendance
You must ensure you register the learner with the awarding organisation within the timescales set by the awarding organisation.
If a learner leaves their qualification before the initial liability point, or if a learner has never attended, you must confirm this to SLC using the learning provider portal. You must not claim any funding from the SLC.
You must not report the ALL indicator in the ILR or claim the loans bursary fund for any support costs if the learner did not pass the liability point.
When a learner has passed the initial liability point, you must confirm their attendance to the SLC using the learning provider portal, on a quarterly basis on 1 November, 1 February, 1 May and 1 August.
You must not continue to confirm attendance in the SLC learning provider portal after the learner has left their learning.
If a learner’s details or circumstances change, or you identify the information is incorrect on the SLC portal, you must tell the SLC as soon as you are aware and before all scheduled payments made by the SLC on behalf of the learner are made.
This will reduce the risk of inconsistencies between the SLC portal and the ILR and the risk of a learner becoming legally responsible for a loan for a qualification they are no longer studying.
You must ensure that learners are aware that they have a responsibility to keep the SLC informed of any changes to their circumstances. We will regularly monitor loans data to ensure that funding does not continue to be provided for learners who are reported in the ILR as withdrawing from their qualification. You must ensure your ILR data is updated and accurate.
The following reasons may result in a learner’s details or circumstances changing from the information they supplied in their initial application:
Only a learner can make a request to SLC to change their personal details or to request an increase in their loan amount.
If the qualification or fees change, you must provide the learner with another learning and funding information letter in advance of the change being implemented.
There must be no fee increase after the course end date.
You can find detailed information and guidance on managing changes of circumstance on SLC’s learning provider services website.
Further information about managing changes of circumstances for learners in custody is given in annex 2.
You must record the date a learner takes a break in learning and the date they restart their learning in the ILR. Further guidance on recording breaks can be found in the ILR provider support manual.
You must have evidence that the learner agrees to return and continue with the same learning aim; otherwise, you must report the learner as withdrawn. When the learner returns to learning, you must re-plan and extend the remaining delivery as required.
You must not use a break in learning for short-term absences, such as holidays or short-term illness.
You must not continue to claim funding once the learner has left their learning.
If a learner changes provider during their learning, you must inform the SLC through the learning provider portal and the learner must be marked as a withdrawal from your organisation. You must also make sure that you update this information on the ILR.
Where late notification of withdrawal results in an overpayment, the SLC will recover this overpayment from your future loan payments. If you have insufficient future loan payments, the SLC will ask you to repay any overpayment.
Learners transferring with an intention to continue their qualification and access further loans support will be required to apply for an additional loan.
If a learner transfers to your organisation, you must ensure that a new learning and funding information letter is issued to them, including a fee which takes account of any prior learning or attainment not necessary to be repeated or charged for.
A learner can apply for a loan retrospectively after the initial liability point but it must be while they are still undertaking the qualification. If the loan is approved by the SLC and the learner has already paid fees to you, then you must refund the full amount to the learner to avoid double funding.
A change of circumstances can also be raised retrospectively, if necessary. You must ensure that this is submitted by the learner while the qualification is being undertaken.
When a learner has completed and achieved their designated loans qualification, you must follow your awarding organisation’s procedures for claiming the relevant certificate and ensure this is given or forwarded to the learner. You must evidence in the learner file that you have done this.
We provide a loans bursary fund to help vulnerable and disadvantaged loan funded learners to overcome costs associated with study which may prevent them from taking part in or continuing in learning.
The loans bursary fund provides the following:
In using your loans bursary funding, you must:
You may claim loans bursary fund if learning continues past the planned end date and the learner still needs support to complete their course.
If you are funded through a grant for your AEB provision, you can claim up to 5% of your loans bursary expenditure for learner support on administration costs.
You must not use your loans bursary funding:
Learner support is available to provide financial support for learners with a specific financial hardship preventing them from taking part or continuing in learning. Before you award support to a learner, you must identify their needs within the following ‘categories’:
You can support learners based on their financial needs and local circumstances.
Types of support include:
You can only use loans bursary funding to pay for childcare with a childminder, provider or childminder agency who is registered with Ofsted.
You must not use loans bursary funding to:
You can use the loans bursary to provide residential funding to support learners who receive specialist provision which involves a residential element or to support learners who cannot access provision locally. The fund can help learners in private accommodation or in accommodation you own or manage.
You must:
Learning support is available to meet the cost of putting in place a reasonable adjustment, as set out in the Equality Act 2010, for learners who have an identified learning difficulty or disability, to achieve their learning goal.
Learning support must not be used to deal with everyday difficulties that are not directly associated with a learner’s learning on their programme.
You must:
Learners who need significant levels of a support to start or continue learning which they are funding with a loan can get access to exceptional learning support (ELS) if their learning support costs more than £19,000.
Learners aged 19 to 24 requiring significant levels of support would normally be expected to have an education, health and care (EHC) plan provided by their local authority and therefore would access funding from their local authority.
If a learner funded through a loan attracts area cost uplift funding, this will be calculated automatically based on information recorded by you in the ILR about where the learning takes place (as reported in the ‘delivery location postcode’ field).
The total area cost uplift is equally spread across the planned length of the learning aim recorded on the ILR.
Only learners who have an approved loan funded by SLC are eligible for area costs uplift funding. If a learner did not take up a loan or did not pass the initial liability point you must ensure you remove the ALL indicator from the ILR.
We detail area cost uplifts by region in annex 1.
If you are funded for your AEB provision through a contract, or only hold a loans agreement/contract and loans bursary fund agreement/contract with ESFA, you can claim loans bursary funding at 3 different monthly rates:
You can only claim one rate for each learner each month, but you can claim a different rate each month to reflect the needs of the learner being supported.
If you are grant funded for your AEB provision and hold a loan agreement/contract and bursary fund agreement/contract you must only claim rate 2 (£150) for learners needing learning support. You must claim the actual cash value for learner support (hardship, childcare and residential).
If you plan to deliver loan funded designated qualification in less than one month and the learner is receiving learning support, you must claim the full value of the learning support through the earnings adjustment statement (EAS).
We expect the total you claim using the fixed rates, to cover the costs of supporting that learner. If the cost of providing support to a learner goes above the total earned from the fixed monthly rate, you can claim the excess through the EAS. You must have evidence to support the excess claim.
You must hold evidence to assure us that you have delivered education and training which learners have chosen to fund through loans, in line with our loan agreement/contract and bursary fund agreement/contract and these funding rules. Most evidence will occur naturally from your normal business process.
You must hold evidence that supports the data held by the SLC and ensure that both the SLC and data reported in the ILR to reflect that evidence are consistent.
You must have a learner file for each learner who chooses to fund their education and training with a loan.
The learner file must contain evidence to support the loans payments you receive on behalf of a learner from the SLC, or loans bursary funds you have received from us, and must be available to us if we need it.
You and the learner must confirm the information in the learner file is correct and, therefore, the information you have reported to the SLC through the learning provider portal and to us in the ILR is correct.
You must ensure that the actual end date recorded on the ILR reflects the last date there is evidence in the learner file.
You must ensure that the planned end date in the ILR reflects the duration agreed with the learner at the start of the learning and which was reported to the SLC at the time of application.
If the time spent in learning is short, the level of evidence in the learner file would reflect this.
Where you hold information centrally, you only need to refer to the source.
You must keep a copy of the learning and funding information letter issued by you to the learner, and a copy of any updated learning and funding information letters, if applicable, in the learner file.
The learner file must confirm the following:
You must hold evidence:
The learner must confirm the information is correct when it is collected. You must have evidence of this, which can include electronic formats.
We accept electronic evidence, including digital signatures, but you must have wider internal systems and processes in place to assure us that learners exist and are undertaking the designated qualification their loans are funding.
You must keep effective and reliable evidence. You are responsible for making the evidence you hold easily available to us when we need it.
All learner self-declarations must confirm the learner’s details and describe what the learner is confirming.
If a learner self-declares prior attainment, you must check this in the PLR and challenge any contradictory information with the learner. The PLR will not necessarily override the learner’s self-declaration.
You must accurately complete all ILR fields for loans-funded learners and make ILR returns as required in the ILR specification and the provider support manual. Where your data does not support the funding you have received from SLC or claimed from the loans bursary, we will take action to get this corrected and could recover funds or require you to make repayments to the SLC.
You must make sure that data recorded and the ILR matches the information that you have reported to the SLC on the learning provider portal. We will monitor the consistency of data and will ask you to make corrections if we are not satisfied that the information reported to us or the SLC is correct.
You must not report a learner as being loans funded and/or claim loans bursary funding if they do not yet have an approved loan with the SLC.
In addition to the learner eligibility criteria set out in the main rules offenders must also:
There is a separate learning and funding information letter for learners in custody.
Learners in custody must make loan applications on the standard paper-based loan application form which you can download from GOV.UK. The application must be accompanied by an SLC prisoner application proforma (available from the Learning and Skills Manager within the prison) or a letter from the prison governor or director (or their representative).
The proforma or governor’s letter must confirm information such as the learner in custody’s release date and permission for the learner in custody to study. If the learner does not have the required evidence of their identity (such as a passport or birth certificate), the proforma or the governor’s letter must also confirm the learner in custody’s identity.
Undertaking learning in custody is likely to lead to more frequent changes in circumstances. You must inform the SLC when a learner in custody’s circumstances change (for example, if they are released from prison, transfer to another prison or change or withdraw from the qualification their loan is funding).
If an individual undertaking a designated loans qualification is sent to prison, they may be able to continue their studies while they are in custody. The individual will have to meet the eligibility criteria for learner in custody as set out under the learner eligibility, including the prison governor’s confirmation that the qualification is appropriate.
When the prison governor or other appropriate authority decides a learner in custody eligibility for a loan has changed (for example, if a further conviction makes the qualification inappropriate), or the offender’s release date is extended beyond the maximum time period:
The learner in custody will still be liable for repaying loan payments made before the withdrawal.
Guidance to prison governors advises them to avoid transferring learners in custody in loan-funded learning where possible. This section describes what happens when this is not possible.
There are times when a learner in custody will be transferred between prisons in England. If the same provider operates in both prisons, the transfer will be treated as a ‘change to personal details’ change of circumstance. The learner in custody must inform the SLC about the change.
If the prisons have different providers:
The prison governor or other appropriate authority at the receiving prison must give permission for the learner in custody to study the qualification.
The provider in the prison the learner in custody is transferred to must take account of the learner in custody’s prior attainment when setting the fee for the rest of the qualification.
The 2 providers must work together to provide continuity of delivery of the learner in custody’s qualification.
If there is no comparable qualification offered by the provider in the receiving prison, the learner in custody must withdraw from the qualification their loan is funding and remains liable for loan payments made in respect of attendance on the qualification at the original prison.
The learner in custody may subsequently (for example on release) be able to apply for a further loan (under compelling personal circumstances) to complete the original qualification.
If a learner in custody with a loan transfers from an English prison to a prison in Wales, they must leave their loan-funded qualification, using the process for those with compelling personal reasons.
Before the transfer, the prison governor or their representative must inform you, and you must inform the SLC through the learning provider portal. If there is a comparable qualification available in the prison in Wales, the learner in custody may be able to complete the remainder of the qualification (education remains publicly funded in Wales).
The learner in custody will still be liable for repaying loan payments made to the provider in England up to the point they leave their qualification.
If a learner in custody who has already started a designated loans qualification at a prison in Wales transfers to an English prison, they may need to apply for a loan if they want to continue the qualification. The provider should take account of the prior learning when setting the fees for delivery of the remainder of the qualification.
A learner in custody may be released on temporary licence to commence a designated loans qualification with a provider with a loans agreement from us. The intention is likely to be that this learning will continue post-release.
The learner in custody must still meet the additional eligibility criteria set out in the learner eligibility section above.
The loan application must be made in the same way as those from offenders in custody and accompanied by an SLC prisoner application proforma, or a letter from the prison governor (or their representative) to confirm the information, such as the learner in custody’s release date and their permission for the learner in custody to study
Where a learner in custody who started a loan-funded qualification in custody is released on temporary licence they may be able to continue their studies with a provider with a loans agreement from us. If this involves a change of provider:
A learner in custody who started a loan-funded qualification towards the end of their sentence, may be able to continue their studies with an eligible provider who has a loans agreement from us on release. If this involves changing provider:
The loans bursary fund provides learning support activity for ‘in-learning’ support such as support for teaching assistants or reasonable adjustments under the Equality Act 2010. This includes learning support for learners in custody or released on temporary licence.
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