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Finance director, new to further education
Six weeks to understand how the college is funded, what puts the income at risk, and which questions to ask MIS. No ILR technical detail beyond what a finance leader actually needs.
Senior leader, new to further education
Six weeks to understand the funding landscape, why data quality is a leadership matter, and what good assurance looks like.
New MIS or ILR officer
Six weeks from no ILR knowledge to running a return confidently: the record, the lifecycle, validation, submission, the calendar and the diagnostics.
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.
Apprenticeship MIS and compliance
Six weeks focused on apprenticeship funding: price and band, the apprenticeship service, breaks and changes, evidence and the reports that expose problems.
Curriculum manager
Six short weeks on what curriculum decisions do to funding and results, and what MIS needs from you and when.
Data, BI or performance analyst
The schema, the snapshots, the funding reports, the achievement rate calculation and the reconciliation work that analysts are usually asked to do first.
Funding or compliance officer
Eligibility, evidence, assurance reports and audit readiness across every stream, with the sampling routines that find problems before an auditor does.
Enrolment, admissions and registry
Short and practical. What you capture at the front door decides most of the college's funding, and this path shows exactly which fields and why.
Governor, auditor or assurance
What to look for, what to ask, and what a useful assurance report contains. Written for people who hold the college to account without operating it.
FE funding foundations
A general route into how further education funding works, for anybody whose work touches it without owning it.