HESA Student Record 2013/14 - Institution's own identifier for student
HESA Student Record 2013/14Fields common to all countriesInstitution's own identifier for student | return to field list |
Type | field |
Short name | OWNSTU |
Description |
This field records the institution's own internal identifier for the student. |
Applicable to | England Northern Ireland Scotland Wales |
Coverage | All students (optional) |
Notes |
This field is designed to be used to aid in linking records. Due to the nature of this requirement, and consequent visibility of the field when manipulating data, it is not advised that protected characteristics such as student names or dates of birth should be used in the population of this field. 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 checking data with institutions, for example, validation reports, etc. |
Part of | |
Field length | 20 |
Minimum occurrences | 0 |
Maximum occurrences | 1 |
Schema components |
Element: OWNSTU
Data type: OWNSTUType |
Owner | HESA |
Version | 1.0 |
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