28 October 2014 
Matt Sisson, Projects and Membership Manager
From the Student Loans Company;
The SLC is introducing a new course and provider database, and management service that will meet the new arrangements introduced for student finance. It will replace the existing system available on the SLC’s HEI Services Portal. The new service will provide strengthened designation, security and anti-fraud measures and give flexibility to implement future policy change. It will link to the Student Finance application process with a simplified course structure making it easier for students to find their course when they apply.
SLC requires institutions to have entered their course information by the end of December 2014. It is asking institutions to plan ahead for this work to ensure they meet this deadline, so that accurate courses data is in place for students applying for finance early in 2015. Once populated, this new database and service will reduce the data requirements from institutions for future years.
Please support the service by ensuring your staff have attended the awareness sessions and have allocated time to input the new courses data. Further information is available on the dedicated Courses Management Services page on the HEP Services website http://www.heiinfo.slc.co.uk
Stephen Avery (City University FD) is the BUFDG representative on the Stakeholder Forum and Rod Peet (University of York Deputy FD) is the representative on the Stakeholder Operations Group.
