HESA Student Record 2013/14 - Foundation degree to degree bridging course
HESA Student Record 2013/14All fieldsFoundation degree to degree bridging course | return to field list | valid entries |
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Short name | BRIDGE | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Description |
This field identifies instances where any part of the instance involves a foundation degree to degree bridging course | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Applicable to | England Northern Ireland Scotland Wales | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coverage | All instances where Instance.REDUCEDI = 00 unless institution in Wales and Course.COURSEAIM begins with P, Q, R, S or X | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Notes |
Foundation degree to degree bridging courses are taken after completing a foundation degree to enable students to join the final year of an honours degree. They are short courses which are not an integral part of the course they are bridging from, although progression from a successful completion of the bridging course to the final year of an honours degree is assured. Where a student’s studies include, within the same instance, a foundation degree to degree bridging course this bridging course element will be shown by code 1 ‘Foundation degree to degree bridging course’ in Instance.BRIDGE and an increased FTE in Instance.STULOAD. Where a student studies only a bridging course within the HESA reporting year Course.COURSEAIM should be returned with a value of H90. Where a student undertakes a foundation degree and bridging course in the same HESA reporting year Instance.FUNDCOMP, should reflect whether the student completed the foundation degree and will therefore usually be returned with a value of 1. Similarly where the student progresses to a degree after completion of the bridging course Instance.FUNDCOMP should reflect the completion status of the degree. Guidance from HEFCE Where the bridging course spans HESA reporting years, HEFCE advise that the FTE must all be returned in the second HESA reporting year; this differs from the method used for other non-standard course academic years. Institutions should also indicate in Instance.BRIDGE that the student has studied a foundation degree to degree bridging course only in the year in which the FTE is increased. It may be that the inclusion of a foundation degree to degree bridging course means that the year of instance becomes non-standard ie. no longer contained within the HESA reporting year. However, where the year would otherwise have been recorded as a standard academic year the year should still be recorded as such. Guidance from HEFCW Where the bridging course spans HESA reporting years, HEFCW advise that the FTE must be split between the years, as for other courses. Institutions should also indicate in Instance.BRIDGE that the student has studied a foundation degree to degree bridging course, in the year in which the bridging course started. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Examples |
A student completes a foundation degree in June 2008 and then undertakes a bridging course from July to September and then joins the final year of a degree which they complete in June 2009.
Example for institutions in Wales A student completes a foundation degree in June 2008 and then undertakes a bridging course from July to September and then joins the final year of a degree which they complete in June 2009.
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Quality rules |
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Reason required |
To identify students who undertook foundation degree bridging courses in order to allocate funding. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Field length | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Minimum occurrences | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Maximum occurrences | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Schema components |
Element: BRIDGE
Data type: BRIDGECodeContentType | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Owner | HESA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Version | 1.1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date modified | 2014-04-29 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Change management notes | Business rule 2 updated to remove deleted Course.COURSEAIM H24 from the list of valid course aims for bridging courses. |
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