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Curriculum manager
Six short weeks on what curriculum decisions do to funding and results, and what MIS needs from you and when.
By the end you will be able to
- Recognise which of your routine decisions are funding decisions
- Get planned hours right and keep them right
- Report leavers and results in a way that protects funding and achievement
- Understand why the December return matters to your area
The plan
Six weeks is a suggestion of pace, not a schedule. Skip anything you already know, and come back to the rest whenever it suits you.
Week 121 minutes
What curriculum decisions do to fundingCurriculum teams make funding decisions every week without calling them that. This module connects each decision to the data it creates and the money it moves.9 min How further education funding actually worksColleges 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.12 min
Week 214 minutes
Planned hours: what counts and how to evidence itPlanned hours set the funding band and therefore the rate for the whole year. What may be counted, what must be evidenced, and how to reconcile hours to a timetable.8 min An enrichment session is cancelled in NovemberA weekly enrichment session counted in planned hours is withdrawn after half term. Nobody thinks of it as a funding decision.6 min
Week 316 minutes
Withdrawals, breaks and restartsHow leaving is recorded, why the date matters as much as the fact, and where the line falls between a break in learning and a withdrawal.9 min A learner withdraws in week sixA learner on a fully funded adult qualification stops attending six weeks in. Follow it from the tutor noticing to the audit test.7 min
Week 416 minutes
How your data becomes your published resultsAchievement rates are calculated from the ILR. Understanding the cohort is what turns an unexplained rate into an explainable one.10 min Results arrive after the final return has closedA batch of awarding organisation results for last year arrives in November, after the final return closed. What can be done?6 min
Week 519 minutes
Week 614 minutes
Getting it right at the front doorMost funding-critical data is captured at enrolment. Front-door quality is the cheapest data quality there is, and the only kind that scales.8 min Designing a programme around a funding bandA programme is designed with just enough hours to reach a higher funding band. Is that legitimate?6 min
Learning record
FEFunding Academy: curriculum and funding
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