Like me, I expect some of you in England are busy checking your HEFCE Equivalent or Lower Qualification (ELQ) data and making amendments for the 2nd May deadline.

We'll also be reviewing our planning, admissions and enrolment procedures for 2008-09 and beyond to ensure that we have embedded ELQ funding rules into the process.

I hope that there will be a willingness within the sector to share information, ideas and discuss how we, managers and administrators, are doing this. Rather than clog up existing lists, particularly for those lucky souls in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland who do not have to deal with this, I have set up a specific jiscmail list to exchange more detailed information about ELQs. This is specifically for 'administrators' dealing with ELQ monitoring and funding consequences not intended to be a general discussion list. It will be a restricted list, so I am only looking for representatives of student records/registries, planning and admissions offices, or similar to join.

The listname is admin-elq. As with all jiscmail lists you can ask to join it either through the web www.jiscmail.ac.uk or by sending an e-mail