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    Greta wrote a new blog post: Love data? Come and work with us!   2 days, 4 hours ago

    Teamwork imageIf you have a passion for data, and are looking for a challenge why not come and work with us? We are currently recruiting for a full-time post and a 12 month secondment opportunity. Both roles will be based at our Cheylesmore House offices in Coventry, [...]

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    Greta posted on the forum topic Rich Williams in the Hot Seat in the group Data Issues:   1 week, 1 day ago

    Martin/Casper, thank you for your further comments on the Hot Seat answers.

    The credibility reports are about five months late, and this is due to a resourcing issue, where I have had to prioritise other projects above these reports, eg FE Choices, impact assessment of 2011/12 SFA Shadow Funding Calculation changes and the SFR. We are [...]

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    Greta posted on the forum topic Rich Williams in the Hot Seat in the group Data Issues:   1 week, 1 day ago

    Martin/Casper, thank you for your further comments on the Hot Seat answers.

    The credibility reports are about five months late, and this is due to a resourcing issue, where I have had to prioritise other projects above these reports, eg FE Choices, impact assessment of 2011/12 SFA Shadow Funding Calculation changes and the SFR. We are [...]

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    Greta posted on the forum topic Rich Williams in the Hot Seat in the group Data Issues:   1 week, 4 days ago

    Hello again

    You'll find the answers to all of my remaining questions below. Have a good weekend everyone.

    Regards
    Rich

    Q: We have received a couple of questions on the delivery of our data collection systems and software last year and how we plan to improve this going forward, so I thought I would pull the questions together on [...]

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    Greta wrote a new blog post: Exploring the ILR Data Quality module   1 week, 5 days ago

    ILR Data Quality e-learning course

    This week, on your behalf, I ventured onto the Training and Support area of the Data Service website in order to review the ILR Data Quality e-learning module.

    After signing up for e-learning I immediately found myself in the (intriguingly named) ‘Intuition Rubicon’ [...]

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    Greta posted on the forum topic Rich Williams in the Hot Seat in the group Data Issues:   2 weeks ago

    Hello feconnect members

    Thanks for taking part in my Hot Seat. You'll find my first answer to a question below and there will be more to follow over the next few days.

    Regards
    Rich

    Q: Why are the National Success Rate Tables not published for 10/11 when they have been used on the QSR and LRPR reports since January? [...]

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    Greta posted on the forum topic Rich Williams in the Hot Seat in the group Data Issues:   2 weeks ago

    Hi All and thanks for your questions for Rich, who will be posting his answers over the coming week.

    This Hot Seat is now closed.

    In the Hot Seat next month: Una Bennett, Head of the Learning Records Service.

    Cheers
    Greta

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    Greta wrote a new blog post: LIScompanion and me   2 weeks, 4 days ago

    Mark Emerson

    Hi blog readers, I’m Mark Emerson, Head of Information Systems and Development at Chelmsford College, and I have been invited by the information authority to be their guest blogger this week.

    As you may know, I recently released LIScompanion and the folks at [...]

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    Greta posted on the forum topic Rich Williams in the Hot Seat in the group Data Issues:   2 weeks, 6 days ago

    Hi Martin, thanks for your question. Rich will get back to you as soon as he can with his reply.
    Cheers, Greta

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    Greta started the forum topic Rich Williams in the Hot Seat in the group Data Issues:   3 weeks ago

    Over the next week Rich Williams, Head of the Data Service, will be here on feconnect to answer your questions. This thread is open for questions until midnight on Tuesday 8 May. Rich will answer as many questions as he can on a daily basis and will aim to answer all of your questions by [...]

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    Greta wrote a new blog post: Rich Williams in the Hot Seat   3 weeks, 1 day ago

    Rich Williams, Head of the Data Service

    From tomorrow, members of feconnect have an exclusive opportunity to raise any queries directly with Rich Williams, Head of the Data Service.

    The Hot Seat forum will open for questions on Wednesday 2 May and run for one week until midnight [...]

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    Greta commented on the blog post 2013/14 ILR specification timeline   3 weeks, 2 days ago

    Hi Caspar, information about which core data will be collected is on our website here: http://www.theia.org.uk/ilr/RequestforChange/
    Cheers, Greta

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    Greta wrote a new blog post: 2013/14 ILR specification timeline   3 weeks, 5 days ago

    March 2012: data categories established
    Our board agrees to introduce new data categories for the individualised learner record (ILR) and identifies a set of specific items that will be collected as core data. Core data is the only data that will automatically be included in the ILR data requested from [...]

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    Greta wrote a new blog post: Open Data: the next industrial revolution?   1 month, 1 week ago

    Following a consultation on data policy held in the late summer of 2011, the government has embraced the concept of open (public sector) data. ‘Open data’ is the idea that certain data should be freely available to everyone to use and republish as they wish, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of [...]

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    Greta posted on the forum topic John Perks in the Hot Seat in the group Data Issues:   1 month, 1 week ago

    Hi All

    Thanks for taking part in the Hot Seat. You'll find my answers to the remaining questions below.

    Cheers
    John

    Q: How do you think the information authority has done in making things better when considering its published aims for?

    Establishing clear and stable data definitions – when a process of change has continued since the authority was established [...]

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    Greta posted on the forum topic John Perks in the Hot Seat in the group Data Issues:   1 month, 1 week ago

    Sadly not Moe – he’d like to come and meet us, but he thinks he’d blow our minds ;)

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    Greta posted on the forum topic John Perks in the Hot Seat in the group Data Issues:   1 month, 2 weeks ago

    Hi All

    Thanks for your questions – here are a couple of answers and I'll respond to the rest next week. Hope you all have a good break.

    Cheers, John

    Q: We talked a lot about making the ILR more comprehensible and understandable to non-MIS people when we moved to XML and got rid of the L and [...]

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    Greta wrote a new blog post: Core Data: a new approach to developing the ILR specification   1 month, 2 weeks ago

    We have been working with data users to create a new approach to developing the specification of the individualised learner record (ILR).

    During the development of the ILR specification for 2012/13 we discussed the removal of fields with senior stakeholders in the Skills Funding Agency and Young People’s Learning Agency (now the Education Funding Agency). This confirmed that without [...]

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    Greta posted on the forum topic John Perks in the Hot Seat in the group Data Issues:   1 month, 3 weeks ago

    Thanks for the questions so far, John will post answers to your queries next week.

    Have a good weekend all.

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    Greta wrote a new blog post: Sun shines on the Data Conference   1 month, 3 weeks ago

    FE providers shared some great ideas on collaborative working in our workshops

    What a glorious day for our joint 2012 FE Data Conference this week! I had a fabulous view of the bright blue sky through the floor to ceiling windows in the Welcome Centre as I tweeted [...]

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    Greta posted on the forum topic John Perks in the Hot Seat in the group Data Issues:   1 month, 3 weeks ago

    David Bowie – I wish! If you've got his email I'll give it a try:)

    As for the rest of your wish list, no promises, but I'll see what I can do.

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    Greta posted on the forum topic John Perks in the Hot Seat in the group Data Issues:   1 month, 3 weeks ago

    Who would you like to see in the Hot Seat steveh?

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    Greta posted on the forum topic John Perks in the Hot Seat in the group Data Issues:   1 month, 3 weeks ago

    Hi steveh, we're hoping that Rich Williams, Head of the Data Service and Una Bennett, Head of the Learning Record Service will also be taking questions over the next couple of months.

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    Greta started the forum topic John is answering your questions in the Data Issues forum in the group Hot Seat – John Perks:   1 month, 3 weeks ago

    You must be a member of feconnect and the Data Issues Group to post a question for John.

    To register as a member fill in our short form: http://forums.theia.org.uk/register/
    Once you are a member of feconnect you can join the Data Issues Group: http://forums.theia.org.uk/groups

    Ready to ask a question? Go to the Data Issues Hot Seat thread:
    http://forums.theia.org.uk/groups/individualised-learner-records-data-issues/forum/topic/john-perks-in-the-hot-seat/

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    Greta started the forum topic John Perks in the Hot Seat in the group Data Issues:   1 month, 3 weeks ago

    Over the next week John Perks, Head of the information authority, will be here on feconnect to answer your questions. This thread is open for questions until midnight on Thursday 5 April. John will answer as many questions as he can on a daily basis and will aim to answer all of your questions by [...]

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