Student 2020/21 - Length of current year of instance
Student 2020/21Fields required from institutions in All fieldsLength of current year of instance | return to field list |
Type | field |
Short name | YEARLGTH |
Description |
This field is used to indicate the normal number of weeks (excluding holidays and placements) from the commencement of study, the first teaching week, to the completion within the current year of the course. It does not purport to indicate the amount of study time or contact time. The field should reflect the length of the whole of the current year of the course and not just the part which is in the current reporting period 1 August - 31 July. |
Applicable to | Scotland Wales |
Coverage | All instances at providers in Wales and Scotland where Instance.REDUCEDI = 00 |
Notes |
The value should exclude holidays and placements. Years of course out on placement should have an empty element returned, i.e: <YEARLGTH></YEARLGTH> This approach can also be followed by providers in Scotland, in cases where there is not a defined normal length for the year of the course. The length of this field is 2 characters, however the move to XML enables data to be returned with or without leading zeros, e.g. 03 or 3. |
Quality rules |
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Reason required | To assist Statutory Customers to monitor programme patterns. |
Part of | |
Field length | 2 |
Minimum occurrences | 0 |
Maximum occurrences | 1 |
Schema components |
Element: YEARLGTH
Data type: PositiveIntegerWithNullType2 |
Owner | HESA |
Version | 1.0 |
Date modified | 2020-07-30 |
Change management notes | Coverage updated to remove references to FE data in Wales as this is no longer collected. |
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