HESA Student Record 2011/12 - Research council student identifier
HESA Student Record 2011/12Fields common to all countriesResearch council student identifier | return to field list |
Type | field |
Short name | RCSTDID |
Description |
This field contains the Personal identifier (PID) generated by the Research Councils for students whom they fund. |
Applicable to | England Northern Ireland Scotland Wales |
Coverage | Optional for all instances where Instance.RCSTDNT does not equal 99 and Instance.REDUCEDI = 00 or 04 |
Notes |
This field records the Personal identifier issued by the Je-S (Joint electronic System) used since December 2004 to capture student and researcher details by EPSRC (for all student schemes) and MRC (for DTG students). Identifiers can be obtained from the Je-S Student\Researcher details screens on the Je-S Portal. Two formats are in use. Only personal identifiers in either the 7 character format XnnnnnC or the 8 character format XnnnnnnC where X is an alpha character, n is numeric and C is an alpha check digit, should be returned. There is a joint Research Council project that is due to complete during 2007 (on current plans) on a phased implementation basis for the remaining Research Councils. PIDs will therefore become available for new Research Council (RC) PhD students as the project progresses – NERC will implementing the project initially with the capture of MSc students. The provision of PIDS for former RC students will be dependant on the migration of data into a common data source. |
Quality rules |
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Reason required |
To allow linking of HESA data to that held by the Research Councils. |
Part of | |
Field length | 8 |
Minimum occurrences | 0 |
Maximum occurrences | 1 |
Schema components |
Element: RCSTDID
Data type: RCSTDIDType |
Related fields | |
Owner | The Research Councils |
Version | 1.0 |
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