Initial Teacher Training In-Year Record 2012/13 - Forenames
Initial Teacher Training In-Year Record 2012/13Fields required from institutions in EnglandForenames | return to field list |
Type | field |
Short name | FNAMES |
Description |
This field records the forenames of the student. |
Applicable to | England |
Coverage | All students |
Notes |
This field is identical to the Student.FNAMES field in the Student record, with the additional requirement that as this field will be used to create the student's TA record it should contain the student's legal forenames. In cases where the student does not split their name between family and forenames, the whole name should be entered in Student.SURNAME and an empty element should be returned with the ReasonForNull attribute set to 9 (not applicable), i.e: <FNAMES ReasonForNull="9"></FNAMES> This information is available from UCAS and GTTR. The field length has been set to 100 characters to align this field with the ISB Aligned Data Definitions. Valid characters The question of valid characters is significant in this field since many names include characters with accents and other diacritics that are not supported by the standard ASCII characterset. The specification of this field falls within the scope of the Aligned Data Definitions and follows the Data Standards in the HESA 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 checking data with institutions and for Statutory Customers to link student records collected by HESA for statistical purposes. |
Part of | |
Field length | 100 |
Minimum occurrences | 1 |
Maximum occurrences | 1 |
Schema components |
Element: FNAMES
Data type: NameWithNullStructure |
Based on | 07051.Student.FNAMES 1.1 |
Owner | ISB Aligned Data Definitions |
Version | 1.0 |
Date modified | 2012-04-30 |
Change management notes | Notes and Datatype adjusted to accept the 'Latin Extended Additional' characterset (range U+IE00 to U+IEFF). All references to the Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA) and the General Teaching Council for England (GTCE) have been replaced with the Teaching Agency (TA), who assumed some of the functions of these bodies from April 1st 2012 when they were abolished. |
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