
Fields required from institutions in ScotlandUCAS Personal Identifier | return to field list |
| Short name | UCASPERID |
| Type | field |
| Description |
This field records the 10-character code issued by UCAS. |
| Applicable to | England Northern Ireland Scotland Wales |
| Coverage | All students who entered any of their current instances from 2007 onwards via a UCAS scheme and who have been issued a UCAS Personal Identifier |
| Base data type | UCASPERIDType |
| Field length | 10 |
| Part of | |
| Minimum occurrences | 0 |
| Maximum occurrences | 1 |
| Related fields | |
| Reason required |
To identify students who entered a current instance via a UCAS application system and to facilitate linking between UCAS and HESA records. |
| Notes |
The UCAS Personal Identifier together with the UCAS application number (EntryProfile.UCASAPPID) forms the UCAS Application Identifier. The UCAS Personal Identifier is sometimes presented using hyphens between characters 3 and 4 and between characters 6 and 7. These hyphens are not to be included in this field in the Student Record. This information will be available from UCAS via the *J transaction. |
| Owner | UCAS |
| Version | 1.3 |
| Date modified | 2008-06-30 |
| Change management notes | Business rule 1 suspended |
| Schema components |
Element: UCASPERID
Data type: UCASPERIDType |