Student 2016/17 - Provider's own identifier for qualification
Student 2016/17Fields required from institutions in All fieldsProvider's own identifier for qualification | return to field list |
Type | field |
Short name | OWNQUAL |
Description |
This field records the provider's own internal identifier for the qualification. |
Applicable to | England Northern Ireland Scotland Wales |
Coverage | All qualifications (optional) |
Notes |
This field may hold an optional internal identifier used for a qualification within a provider. 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. Providers 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 to follow
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Reason required |
To facilitate HESA checking data with providers, for example, validation reports, etc. |
Part of | |
Field length | 20 |
Minimum occurrences | 0 |
Maximum occurrences | 1 |
Schema components |
Element: OWNQUAL
Data type: OWNSTUType |
Owner | HESA |
Version | 1.0 |
Date modified | 2016-05-06 |
Change management notes | New field added for 2016/17. |
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