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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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’ [...]

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? [...]

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

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

Have a good weekend all.

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 [...]

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.

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

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.

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/

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 [...]