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At Exeter we give all students until the 3rd Friday of the first term to pay fees (or the first instalment). The first SLC disk was received on 9 October, and staff pulled out all the stops, input all the fee splits AND raised invoices for the U/G student's element by 16th. We then gave them until 27 October to pay the first half. The second half will be due by 16 Feb. I understand the first disk should have been out sometime in September. This enabled us to correctly invoice 80% of students at the first attempt (taking provisional assessments as 'correct'). Those not on the disk were invoiced the full fee. We also took a very firm line in insisting the due payment date be met, particularly where students had been slow to apply to LEA's. We estimate £2m of fees out of about £5m was received 4-5 weeks earlier than last year when the disk was much later arriving. The greatest benefit has been to have fewer student debtors to chase up. Peter Glazier Finance Manager =========================================== On Wed, 10 Jan 2001 09:55:00 -0000 Julia Morrison <[log in to unmask]> wrote: # > Now that we have had a couple of years of these new arrangements for # > H/EU students, Imperial is considering how best we might invoice for # > the self part of these fees. To date, we have waited for the SLC # disks > to arrive and begun invoicing on that information. This leads # to some > delay in invoicing and so receipts and so affects College # cashflow! > # > I should be interested hear from institutions (if any!) who # invoice > students for the full fee and then re-assess when more # information is > known. Does this lead to an increased cashflow and # if so, is the extra > work worth it?? # > > Thanks in advance, # > > Tony # > > # ********************************************************************** ------------------------------ Peter Glazier [log in to unmask] ------------------------------