Glossary
Management information
The reporting a college uses to run itself, distinct from the statutory returns it must make.
In full
Management information turns the same underlying data into something the college can act on: enrolments against plan, retention, earnings against allocation, data-quality exceptions.
Where management information and the ILR disagree, one of them is wrong, and finding out which is a valuable exercise in itself.
Where this comes up
diagnostic
A funded learner has no eligibility evidence on file
Funding has been claimed for the learner, but the college cannot produce the evidence that they were eligible for it. The claim may be entirely correct and still fail, because at audit the evidence is the claim.
scenario
Adult delivery is running above the allocation
By May, adult skills earnings are tracking above the allocation. What can be done, and what evidence is needed?
module
How further education funding actually works
Colleges are not paid a block grant for teaching. They are funded through several separate streams, each with its own rules, and each earned by recording delivery in the ILR.
scenario
The same records appear on a report every single period
A monitoring report returns the same cluster of records month after month. Each time they are worked and each time they return.
scenario
A bootcamp outcome is achieved but never recorded
A learner gets a job after a Skills Bootcamp. Nobody records it, and the outcome milestone is not claimed.
scenario
A governor asks what the funding risk actually is
At a board meeting, a governor asks what would have to go wrong for the funding position to be materially misstated. What is a good answer?