Initial Teacher Training In-Year Record 2010/11 - Course title
Initial Teacher Training In-Year Record 2010/11Fields required from institutions in EnglandCourse title | return to field list |
Type | field |
Short name | CTITLE |
Description |
This field will be determined by the institution and in this context relates to the complete programme of study leading to the qualification aim referred to in fields Student.ITTAIM |
Applicable to | England |
Coverage | All students |
Notes |
This field is identical to the Course.CTITLE field in the Student Record, with an additional requirement that this field is compulsory to allow reports to be ordered by Student.CTITLE. This field will not be subject to specific checks regarding its validity. The only validation checks will be that the field must exist and contain at least one character. Valid characters The valid characterset available for this field follows the Data Standards in the HESA student record.
The character set chosen will support Welsh and Gaelic languages as well as all European and most other languages using a Latin-based character set. The Unicode charts that list each of the characters in this range can be found on the Unicode web site. The specific sets that are defined here are shown in the following PDF documents: Files must be encoded with UTF-8 and schema validation will be in place to ensure this. Institutions must specify the encoding used in their XML files in the first line of the file (i.e. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>) and to ensure that their files are actually saved with that encoding. If XML files are edited with some text editors and the encoding is not specified or does not match the actual file encoding, there may be problems when submitting these files for validation. |
Quality rules |
Quality rules relating to this field are displayed here.
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Reason required |
To facilitate HESA cross-checking with institutions and to identify courses in onward analyses. |
Part of | |
Field length | 255 |
Minimum occurrences | 1 |
Maximum occurrences | 1 |
Schema components |
Element: CTITLE
Data type: TitleType |
Based on | 07051.Course.CTITLE 1.0 |
Owner | HESA |
Version | 1.1 |
Date modified | 2010-06-30 |
Change management notes | Updated guidance to reflect requirement for files to have encoding specified |
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