steveh

steveh posted on the forum topic Help – what do you mean by LIS Exp – re-introduction of data collection ID in the group Data Issues:   2 days, 19 hours ago

Yup, seem to recall similar points coming up at the conference, particularly about transparency in the aggregate reports.

One of the problems we have is we don't always know what is included or excluded on specific reports in LIS and have difficulty matching LIS figures to what we can produce from our systems, or [...]

steveh posted on the forum topic Increases in SLN values in the group Data Issues:   2 weeks ago

Hi Peter

They bumped up quite a large stack of aims, so their values are more like the LR values. It was mentioned in Update:

http://readingroom.skillsfundingagency.bis.gov.uk/sfa/skills_funding_agency-update-issue_106.pdf

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

Is the e-GIF schema still valid? Slightly disturbingly when I google it all I get are archived cabinet office pages and squatted dead links (eg http://www.egifcompliance.org/)?

steveh posted on the forum topic Shadow Funding Calculations – LLDD and Employability Delivery in the group Data Issues:   1 month, 2 weeks ago

Sorry Chris, my fault for only giving you half the story. There are no listed GLH any more, there's only the matrix…

The new funding matrix has steps (remember loadbands? yeah, like that) to take into account, so a 6 (or 12 or 24) credit qual is significantly worse off that a 7 (or 13 [...]

steveh posted on the forum topic Shadow Funding Calculations – LLDD and Employability Delivery in the group Data Issues:   1 month, 2 weeks ago

Level 3s will only be unfunded for over 23s, 19-23s are still funded.

Also, the reason their funding is going up is because traditionally they were funded at less than 8 glh per credit, some significantly so.