Locations

You can assign courses to any location that you have created for your organisation on the Locations tab of the Courses Management Service (CMS).

If you are offering a course at 2 or more locations this can be reflected under one course entry on CMS.

There are 3 location types on CMS: Campus, Teacher Training School and Franchise.

A campus is a location that students attend.

We would expect your first location to be your main site (or lead school if you are a School Direct Initial Teacher Training provider).

All you need to enter for each campus is its name and postcode. The postcode determines the funding that the student receives (inside or outside London).

A Teacher Training School is a location used to deliver school-centred teacher training courses.

There are 2 main types of initial teacher training (ITT) courses that can be designated:

• schools ITT courses
• ITT courses for those who want to teach in the further education (FE) sector

These courses can be delivered under a range of different models. The designation and approval arrangements vary.

Schools ITT courses can be delivered by authority funded providers, private providers or by School-Centred Initial Teacher Training (SCITT) providers. Some may be delivered under the School Direct programme.

ITT courses for the further education sector are delivered mainly by authority funded providers and in some cases by private providers.

If you are delivering a course at a franchise location, you must add the course to CMS as the lead provider. You should choose the franchise location as the course delivery address.

If the franchise location is not showing in the dropdown, please email ssin_queries@slc.co.uk. Include the details of the franchise location you need so that we can add it to CMS for you to use.

If a franchise location you’re delivering a course at changes its address, it’s your responsibility as the lead provider to let us know immediately. This is because student entitlement may be affected by an address change. Please email ssin_queries@slc.co.uk with the details of the franchise location's new address so we can update it.