Welcome!
Thank you for visiting feconnect - the social network for those working with data in the further education system.
This site has been developed by the information authority secretariat to provide a platform that can bring everyone within further education, skills and training together. This will enable better consultation and the development of a community through which shared problems can be solved.
One of the key aims for the site is to provide a platform through which we can manage the change process for the individualised learner record. We want to make this as open and transparent a process as possible - and one in which anyone can have their say. This process will be live from April 11 2008 and I hope that everyone will play their part in the conversations - whether on or offline.
My team and I will be facilitating this network to ensure that the most is made of any conversations and discussions, by drawing the right people together and ensuring those with knowledge to share are matched up with those who need information. If you have any queries, then your first port of call should be our friendly community facilitators Dave and Paul - feel free to discuss any issues you have with them.
Fundamentally, though, this is your online community. Please experiment with the functionality available, and let us know any suggestions you have to improve things.
I look forward to talking to you all in the future,
Una Bennett
Head of the information authority
What's New
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The IA Website now says that this is due to be published on 11th July
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Hello Can anyone clarify the payment process for SLN Instalments for 08/09? The guidance states that "SLN instalments will start to be counted when a learner is deemed to have started" and "a learner is deemed to have started a learning aim once they have remained on that learning aim for the period of time defined in table 3". For...
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XML is fairly easy to encrypt as it can be sent uses standard HTTP and HTTPS transfer protocols. This allows for any accepted HTTPS encryption to be applied to the data in transit. From experience I would say that this kind of encryption is relatively easy to develop and implement. Aa a VB.net developer in a previous role XML development tools came...
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Brief outline of data requirement and the objectives Benefits to the FE system as a whole Change owner /key contact: L39: Learner Destination L39 Learner Destination should be an Aim level field. For Work Based Learning a learner can start and finish within an academic year. The period of training gets closed off. Then they come back within the same...