Glossary
MIS
Management information systems
The team and the systems responsible for the college's data, including generating and submitting the ILR.
In full
MIS holds the college's student record system, generates the ILR, runs validation, submits returns and produces the reports the rest of the college relies on.
MIS rarely creates the underlying data. It inherits it from admissions, curriculum and registry, which is why most ILR problems are solved upstream of MIS rather than inside it.
The rules behind this
The ILR is generated from the student record system. It is an output of the college's own data, which is why almost every ILR problem is really a problem in enrolment, curriculum or registry data.
Where this comes up
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FIS and Submit Learner Data: the submission workflow
When to validate locally, when an actual submission is needed, what each report tells you, and how resubmission works within a collection window.
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Questions to ask MIS, and what a good answer looks like
A set of questions that a finance or senior leader can ask without being an ILR technician, each with the answer that should reassure you and the answer that should not.
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Where Academy concepts appear in your MIS
How the concepts in this Academy map onto the student record systems colleges actually run, and why we do not publish unverified screen paths.
diagnostic
Learning support is claimed but the evidence chain is incomplete
A learning support claim has been made, but one of the links in the chain is missing: the assessment of need, the record of support actually delivered, the cost of delivering it, or the recording that triggers the claim.
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.
diagnostic
An adult learner appears to be funded by the wrong authority
The learner's recorded source of funding does not match what their home postcode implies, so the aim may be claimed from the wrong funder, under the wrong rules.
Sources
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