The Financial Management Standard in Schools (FMSiS) website is available at www.fmsis.info.
Registration for the FMiS community of practice, which is available through the Learning Gateway, is currently open to those with a direct interest in school-based finance including school leaders, teachers, governors, LEA officers and members of school-based remodelling groups such as parents and support staff. If you are an existing member of NCSL in Dialogue, you will automatically have access to the FMiS community and do not need to complete the online registration form.
You are not eligible if you are a school/FE/HE student or if you don't have a direct link with finance in schools.
NCSL has a highly skilled team of experienced e-learning specialists. Each online community in talk2learn has specialists allocated to it who provide support and help you to gain the most out of your community membership.
Facilitation is a continuous process which includes helping the user to get started to high-level support in setting up a community led by the user. For example, e-learning specialists can:
If you experience difficulties when trying to complete the online form, contact the NCSL help desk on 0845 609 0009 or by email at enquiries@ncsl.org.uk. The help desk is open Monday-Friday, 8am to 9pm (excluding bank holidays).
All information you submit to NCSL using the online registration form will be protected from unauthorised access using standard internet security techniques. When you access the form, your browser software may warn you that you are about to send information to a secure website, and you may be asked to confirm that you are willing to proceed. If this is the first time you have used the internet to send information to a secure site, you might like to review the help pages on internet security.