06/02 - February
Dear Colleagues
Student Record Coding Manual 2005/06
I am writing principally to confirm the details of a change to be made to the HESA Student Record Coding Manual for 2005/06 (C05011) – the introduction of a new field to report Welsh Baccalaureate.
1) New Field |
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Field 227/209 |
Welsh Baccalaureate Advanced Diploma |
WELBACC |
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| Status | Compulsory for Welsh domiciled undergraduate students with a COMDATE after 31 July 2005 at institutions in Wales. | ||||||||
| Valid Entries |
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| Description | This field identifies those students who undertook a Welsh Baccalaureate Advanced Diploma programme of study and also distinguishes those students who were awarded the qualification from those students who were not awarded the qualification. | ||||||||
| 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 programme of study 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 programme of study’ in field 227/209, Welsh Baccalaureate Advanced Diploma. |
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| Reason Required |
This field is a requirement of the National Assembly for Wales (NAW) following the
introduction of the new Welsh Baccalaureate qualification programme in September 2003. The
Welsh Assembly 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. |
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2) Nomenclature
I also draw to your attention three minor nomenclature changes made to update the 2005/06 Student Record Coding Manual, which is now available at: index.php?option=com_manuals&task=show_related_dox&Itemid=220&collid=C05011&y=05
Statutory Customer names
a) All references to the Teacher Training Agency have been replaced with Training and Development Agency for Schools, and all references to the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council have been replaced with Scottish Funding Council.
b) In Field 68 Major source of tuition fees (MSTUFEE) Code 17 Arts & Humanities Research Board (AHRB) has been replaced with 17 Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC).
3) Field 100 – 145 Cost centre 1-16 COSTCN 01 –16
Module Record Field 12 Cost centre 1 – 4 COSTCN 01 –04
In addition, may I take this opportunity to remind record contacts of the revised list of cost centres to be used from 2005/06. The above fields in the Student Record Coding Manual 2004/05 contain the revised cost centre list that was developed from the Finance Statistics Record review, as notified to institutions in the Cost Centres Summary http://www.hesa.ac.uk/manuals/CCtable.html.
Further Information
If you have any queries on the issues raised in this Circular, please contact the Institutional Liaison team (Alison Berry, Marietta Nkweta, Janet Earl or Clara Elcocks) at HESA, or email (liaison@hesa.ac.uk).
Yours sincerely
C. Jane Wild
Director of Operations
