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Pellcomp Staff News

Pellcomp, September 30, 2010

We’d like to introduce our newest member of the team, Mark Goves. In the long-term Mark will be working on our marketing activity, but as with all new staff he’s currently learning the ropes in our Support team in order to get a good understanding of the industry. As such you may be speaking to … read more

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E2E In The LIS

Pellcomp, September 30, 2010

We have a fairly good correspondence between PICS and the LIS for E2E and FL funding. We notice, however, that no E2E basic and enhanced qualification bonuses are appearing in the LIS (PICS codes E2QuB and E2QuE): we think that this may be an error, and is likely to be corrected in a further version … read more

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Changing Funding Organisations

Pellcomp, September 30, 2010

Some features within PICS, such as the Monthly Returns, are specific to the Funding Organisation that is being displayed in the top-right of the PICS main screen. With the move to new SFA/YPLA Funding Organisation codes, you may now have a requirement to switch between these codes on a regular basis. The easiest way to … read more

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Lad Approval Dates and PICS

Pellcomp, September 30, 2010

The Support team are getting a lot of calls at the moment with regard to adding aims in PICS. There have been an unusually high number of updates to the LAD recently with various changes to approval and validity dates, which is causing understandable confusion. We’ve made a number of changes in PICS to make … read more

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Charge For Foundation Learning

Pellcomp, September 30, 2010

We’ve had a few enquiries recently from providers as to why they were not charged for Foundation Learning in their annual Support & Maintenance, so we’d just like to clarify this point. Previously E2E was licensed as part of our standard ER programmes, despite it requiring separate LR exports, validation, and LIS reconciliation. The move … read more

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FL Validation Error

Pellcomp, September 30, 2010

Those of you who have been entering weekly aims for Foundation Learning will have noticed that the LIS marks them as errors, saying that you can’t have a programme (ZPROG) record running concurrently with a weekly aim. The latest set of known issues from the Information Authority lists this as a known error which will … read more

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OLDC closure

Pellcomp, September 1, 2010

We hear from the Data Service that Online Data Collection will be unavailable from Thursday October 28th until Tuesday November 2nd. This of course severely limits the time available for submitting period 03 ER returns, so please be sure that you have submitted a test return for October before the shutdown, and are ready to … read more

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