HESA Student Record 2013/14 - Welsh Baccalaureate Advanced Diploma
HESA Student Record 2013/14All fieldsWelsh Baccalaureate Advanced Diploma | return to field list | valid entries |
Type | field |
Short name | WELBACC |
Description |
This field identifies those students who undertook a Welsh Baccalaureate Advanced Diploma course and also distinguishes those students who were awarded the qualification from those students who were not awarded the qualification |
Applicable to | England Northern Ireland Scotland Wales |
Coverage | All Welsh domiciled entrants at institutions in Wales (and optional for all Welsh domiciled entrants at institutions in England, NI or Scotland) where Course.COURSEAIM begins H, I, J or C and where Instance.REDUCEDI = 00 or 04 |
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Notes |
Optional for Welsh domiciled students at institutions in England, Northern Ireland and Scotland. The Welsh Baccalaureate Advanced Diploma is comprised of two parts: Core and Options. Core consisting of four components, i.e. Key Skills, Wales, Europe and the World, Work-related Education and Personal and Social Education. Options courses/programmes currently offered, e.g. GCSE, VGCSE, AS/A levels, VCE (Vocational A levels), GNVQ, NVQ, BTEC. Together, the Core and Options make up the Welsh Baccalaureate Advanced Diploma, a qualification at Level 3 of the National Qualifications Framework. For clarification, any students undertaking a course leading to the Welsh Baccalaureate Intermediate Diploma, a qualification at Level 2 of the National Qualifications Framework, should be coded 3 'Student did not undertake the Welsh Baccalaureate Advanced Diploma course' in this field. |
Quality rules |
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Reason required |
This field is a requirement of the Welsh Government (WG) following the introduction of the new Welsh Baccalaureate qualification programme in September 2003. The Welsh Government has set the target that 25% of students in Wales will be following the Welsh Baccalaureate by 2010. Monitoring and analysis of the numbers of students entering HE with the Welsh Baccalaureate Advanced Diploma. |
Part of | |
Field length | 1 |
Minimum occurrences | 0 |
Maximum occurrences | 1 |
Schema components |
Element: WELBACC
Data type: WELBACCCodeContentType |
Owner | HESA |
Version | 1.0 |
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