Dont know yet - more next week
Roger
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of English Anne
> Sent: 02 February 2000 13:23
> To: 'r.m.g [log in to unmask]
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> Subject: RE: Student Loans Company- some updates
>
>
> Roger
> will the revised courses database have our existing courses information on
> it?
> Anne
>
> Admin.Assistant-Records & Loans
> Academic Registry
> University of Brighton
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> > From: Roger Clark[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> > Reply To: [log in to unmask]
> > Sent: 02 February 2000 12:46
> > To: Admin-Student
> > Subject: Student Loans Company- some updates
> >
> > Colleagues
> >
> > There was a meeting of the DfEE Student Support Design Group last week.
> > This is a note of the most important bits for higher education
> >
> > COURSES AND TERM DATES
> > First, and most important, is the timetable for collecting data
> on courses
> > and term dates for by the SLC. You will remember that this data is then
> > used by LEAs to determine the number of days that a student receives
> > support
> > for, and by the SLC to trigger payment of the loans for the beginning of
> > each term.
> >
> > The SLC will be sending out the collection software on 14 February, and
> > will
> > ask for the data to be returned by 28 February. I agreed to
> send out this
> > forewarning, to give you all a little more time to collect the data.
> >
> > They have written a completely new piece of software for collecting the
> > data, which will I hope be vastly better than the thing they
> gave us last
> > year. In particular it will allow for importing of course and
> terms data
> > from a spreadsheet or from your own system in some other way. I will be
> > able to let you have more information next week on how this will work.
> >
> >
> > COMMUNICATION PROBLEMS
> > The SLC, which hosted this meeting, are now fully aware of the
> problems we
> > and our students are having in contacting them by phone or fax or email;
> > they are admitting that they underestimated the number of calls
> they would
> > get, especially given the time slippage which compounded the problem. I
> > am
> > hopeful that if they can deliver what they say they plan to do, matters
> > should improve substantially (although not in the very short term I
> > suspect).
> >
> >
> > ATTENDANCE CONFIRMATION LISTS
> > A significant number of institutions did not manage to get their
> > Attendance
> > Confirmation lists back by the deadline of 14 January. The SLC say that
> > they expect to pay fees relating to lists which come back after the
> > deadline
> > within 10 working days of receipt of the lists. If you have not yet
> > returned your list I would urge you to send back the list as quickly as
> > possible, dealing with the students who actually ARE on the
> list, without
> > delaying it while you sort out what has happened to those you
> expected to
> > be
> > on the list but are not.
> >
> > Some of you were worried whether a mark-sensing machine could
> distinguish
> > reliably between an A and an X; be reassured, they are not
> using any form
> > of
> > machine reading; the data is being keyed in and then rekeyed to
> check it.
> >
> > Roger Clark
> > Academic Registrar
> > University of Reading
> >
>
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