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steveh commented on the blog post Unique Learner Numbers for Schools in Wales 1 day, 7 hours ago
Also, any savings and efficiencies that could be gained are VASTLY outweighed by the amount of time and effort put into getting and maintaining ULNs by providers. Now this was always accepted as an upfront cost to providers, it’s just the lag time to getting the benefits looks like it’s going to be significantly [...]
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steveh commented on the blog post Unique Learner Numbers for Schools in Wales 1 day, 7 hours ago
Story over on FEWeek that gives some rather shocking numbers about the usage of LRS:
http://www.feweek.co.uk/2012/02/03/more-than-14m-learner-accounts-unused/
eeeh, I remember when we got to the millionth ULN…
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steveh posted on the forum topic Skills Funding Agency Statement – published: 16/12/2011, in the group Data Burden Project: 3 weeks, 3 days ago
Paul, this is an incredibly Panglossian view of what is going to happen over the next couple of years. It's going to be CARNAGE.
Whilst the YPLA's consultation and seemingly inevitable move to headcount funding makes a fair amount of sense, the SFA's imposition of a 30 rate matrix is completely unfit for [...]
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steveh commented on the blog post Do you tweet? Do you want to? 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Hi Greta
I love twitter and use it a lot to talk to like-minded twitterers. The problem I think isn’t with *our* social media policies, it’s with yours (and I’m using “yours” to talk about civil servants in general). It appears to me that you aren’t allowed to really join in with conversations which [...]
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steveh posted on the forum topic Should we ask for R04 to be postponed in the group Data Issues: 2 months, 2 weeks ago
that's a lot of hope, moe…
and even if people have made it through the vast jungle of error messages and spent hours building their own reports to check it, how can they have any reasonable idea that their data *is* right? or that SFA will be using the same rules they are regardless of rightness?
