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Learning journey · Head or director of MIS
MIS officer moving into ILR work
An accelerated path for somebody who knows the college and its systems but has not owned the ILR. Skips the introduction and starts with the record.
By the end you will be able to
- Own a return end to end, including validation, reconciliation and sign-off
- Diagnose a funding movement from the reports rather than from the learner list
- Work assurance reports by cause and keep an exception log
- Plan the collection year backwards from the final return
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 125 minutes
The anatomy of the ILRWhat is actually inside the Individualised Learner Record: the entities, how they nest, and which fields carry the funding.13 min From a learner walking in to funding arrivingThe full chain: a learner event, the operational action it triggers, the source data it creates, the ILR fields it populates, validation, funding, reports, evidence, performance and audit.12 min
Week 227 minutes
What validation does, and what it does not doValidation checks that the data is internally consistent and conforms to the specification. It does not check that the data is true, that the learner was eligible, or that the funding is correct.10 min FIS and Submit Learner DataWhen to validate locally, when an actual submission is needed, what each report tells you, and how resubmission works within a collection window.9 min Reconciling funding month by monthHow to compare what the return earned against what you expected, explain the movement, and stop year-end surprises before they form.8 min
Week 325 minutes
Week 424 minutes
R14 in depth9 min Working data quality and monitoring reportsReports that flag records for investigation are the most useful assurance tool available, and the most commonly misread. A flag is a question, not a finding.9 min The same records appear every periodA monitoring report returns the same cluster of records month after month. Each time they are worked and each time they return.6 min
Week 516 minutes
The routine that prevents most problemsA small number of checks, run every month without exception, prevent the majority of funding, performance and audit problems in further education.8 min What good evidence looks likeEvidence is not paperwork for its own sake. It is the demonstration that a funded activity genuinely happened as recorded, and it has three properties.8 min
Week 616 minutes
Closing the funding year properlyAt the final return the funding, the achievement rates and the audit population are all fixed at once. Everything that will be corrected has to be corrected before it.9 min Where Academy concepts appear in your MISHow the concepts in this Academy map onto the student record systems colleges actually run, and why we do not publish unverified screen paths.7 min Generate a year-end readiness checklist (optional)10 min
Learning record
FEFunding Academy: owning the ILR return
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