Only to reiterate the point you raise below.
Neither LEAs nor SLC really need to know what course a student is on,
merely that it is valid for these purposes. If they need to know which
foreign climes they are off to (foreign climbs in the case of geography
students presumably), they can check when the student claims any
placement money.
It seems potty for the SLC to be maintaining a course directory merely
so that they can record term dates against each course to act as a
look-up table for the student. Much better just to record the term dates
for each student and rely on us to ensure that all students on a
particular course have the same term dates supplied.
There, that saves about 2 staff-months of work for each institution.
And for SLC
And for LEAs
j
Roger Clark wrote:
>
> I have been asked to go to a meeting on Thursday at the DfEE to discuss
> possible improvements
> to the collection and input of course data by HEIs into the HEI Database of
> courses and term dates.
>
> Would anyone who has any views or suggestions please let me have them by
> lunchtime on Wednesday.
>
> As far as I can see, the process went much more smoothly in winter 1999/2000
> than it did the year before. I hope we can be allowed more lead time. I
> will go through the instructions again to see where they can be improved;
> but I am rather too close to the design of the process (ie I think I
> understand it) so I am not as critical of the instructions as I would be if
> I simply received them cold.
>
> I am also pursing (on a more extended agenda) the issue of whether it
> actually matters if a student is doing say French, or French with German.
> But any resolution of this will probably not effect the collection of course
> and term date details, because LEAs will need to know these to calculate how
> much a student is to be lent.
>
> Roger Clark
> Academic Registrar
> University of Reading
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