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Profile information

Employer

East Norfolk Sixth Form College
Job Title

CMIS Manager
Location

Gorleston, Norfolk
Web Address

http://www.enorf.ac.uk
Stakeholder groups

Learning provider (Sixth Form College), Software writer/supplier

John McCabe's Latest Activity See All ››

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    John McCabe posted on the forum topic Questions for John McCabe in the group John McCabe – Hot Seat:   1 year, 5 months ago

    The one thing FE Connect has done well has been consultations. I think people do listen and do take notice.

    I suppose the classic one is NI numbers which has always been a hardy perennial.

    The reason I don't like (online) surveys is twofold:

    a) they are not open-ended i.e. you get a limited set of questions [...]

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    John McCabe posted on the forum topic Questions for John McCabe in the group John McCabe – Hot Seat:   1 year, 5 months ago

    The multi site search looks good. This is the sort of thing that could be really useful.

    You've missed off the LSC. I know it's dead but it won't lie down. The reading room is always good for a root around.

    We were looking for details on when to submit our SAR and can't find anything. [...]

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    John McCabe posted on the forum topic Change Request 33 – Move ILR to XML format in the group 2011/12 ILR – Discussion Area:   1 year, 5 months ago

    http://www.theia.org.uk/ilr/ilrdocuments/201112_ilrdetail.htm suggests that the specification will be sorted by 28th February (or did they mean 29th?) 2011.

    However the same page also suggests that the BIS will want loads of changes because of their skills strategy. We also know that there are going to be problems for Sixth Forms because of the way they're moving funding [...]

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    John McCabe posted on the forum topic Questions for John McCabe in the group John McCabe – Hot Seat:   1 year, 5 months ago

    Back to ULNs. I knew there was something I had missed and the words are Prior Attainment.

    To us this is a pain because we're not (much) worried about level 2 or level 3. We do have a few, genuine unknowns because they have foreign qualifications.

    What is important is that they have 4 or 5 Cs [...]

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    John McCabe posted on the forum topic Questions for John McCabe in the group John McCabe – Hot Seat:   1 year, 5 months ago

    As to web services, I think you should be registered as an LRS developer, that way you could write a web service that used the underlying APIs to get ULNs.

    When it comes to the LAD, we've been looking at the so-called "analytical" LAD – the flat file version that has all the main fields. [...]

John McCabe's Groups (9) See All ››

  • Data Issues - 175 members

    This is an area for providers to seek peer support on data issues. If formal data support is required learning [...]

  • Learning Records Service (previously MIAP) - 56 members

    A group to discuss anything related to the Learning Records Service (previous MIAP)

  • Data Burden Project - 32 members

    This discussion group is for the gathering of views on the issue of data burden within the FE system

  • Data Service Software - 62 members

    A group to discuss software created and released by the Data Service (LAD, LIS, DSAT, etc)

  • 2011/12 ILR – Discussion Area - 56 members

    For users to discuss potential changes to the ILR for 2011/12.

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