Only 2 hours and 10 minutes teaching a week for A level?

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Just received revised timetable for my son starting 3 A levels at an FE college. For music and sociology A level there is only one taught lesson a week of 2hrs 10 mins and two lessons a week of same length for psychology. Plus what I think is a tutor group for 45 minutes. This seems very little to me. Is this standard for A levels now? Interested to know if this meets requirements/guidelines and what others are receiving? Thanks.

No that's not normal, my DD is doing psychology, sociology and RE and the minimum she has per subject is 4 1/2 hours per week. The most is 6 1/2 hours. I would query that as sounds very odd, even in Corona times.

Ds’ school has 6 periods per day. I reckon he has around 5 free/study periods per week & around 3 double classes in each subject.

We have 4.5 hours contact time a week for A levels.

I thought 12 hrs was classed as full time (which seems laughable to me), which with 3 a'levels is a min 4 hrs per subject.
Dc started yr 12 with 12hrs for 3 subjects + 1hr tutor + 1hr EPQ. Once further maths kicked in after the first term he went up to 16hrs for 4 subjects.
Just started yr 13 and he has 2 x 8 2hr sessions = 16hrs for 4 subjects, plus 1h tutor once a fortnight.

Other local 6th form is 4.5hrs per subject.

5.5 hours per week at my school for A Level subjects.

Many FE colleges are still on blended learning due to covid. It all depends on their available space.

My DD is year 13 and has blended learning at the moment in her college. Usually contact time is 5 hours per subject. At the moment some weeks are 2.5 hours in and 2. 5 hours online.

That does sound low.

My DD has 9 hrs over 2 weeks for each A level with 4 hours over 2 weeks for Core Maths (AS level).

DD has 5 hours/week per subject. As she is doing 4 currently she has 20 taught hours face to face in college

We have 4 hours and 20 min contact time per subject, and students are expected to replicate that during homework, on site supervised study periods etc

We do 9 taught hours per subject over the 2 week timetable and then an hour they are timetabled into the lib array to do independent learning for each subject. Although at the moment half the lessons are taught online/home learning

Ds is now in year 13, in a normal pre-covid week, 5 hours per subject over the week plus 5 hours of "free periods", one tutor group session and an enrichment activity on Wednesday afternoons, anything from sport to knitting. No EPQ because he is doing 4 A levels.

In covid timetable, 1 subject per day so they don't move classrooms so that is still 5 hours on one subject in one day, today is maths.