Module record 04/05
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04013: Proportion of FTE
Field Information
| Number: | 006 |
| Name: | Proportion of FTE |
| Abbreviation: | FTE |
| Length: | 5 |
| Status: | Compulsory. |
| Description: | The Proportion of FTE indicates the proportion of a full time equivalent year attributed to the module. It shows the proportion of a year's full-time study for this qualification aim that the module would represent. |
| Notes: | This field, together with field 74, Student FTE, endeavours to capture more sensitive information than has previously been available about students whose study pattern cannot be categorised as typically 'full-time', i.e. equivalent in total to 1 FTE per year. It provides a numerical measure of the contents of field 70, Mode of study. It does not seek to record the 'teaching load', nor the 'contact time' associated with a student or the programme of study, nor the 'learning hours', since each of these quantities is subject to variation between institutions, and cannot be related to a national norm. No weighting should be given, therefore, to take account of the resourcing requirements of different modules. For institutions operating a credit points system, the proportion of FTE can be calculated from the number of credit points that may be obtained from the module compared with the number of credit points obtainable for that year of the programme of study. Proportion of FTE can also be calculated by reference to a conventional full-time student following the qualification aim. For example, if it is the institution's normal requirement that a student should complete 12 (equally-weighted) modules for a degree which would typically take 3 years for a normal full-time student, then each module would have proportion of FTE calculated as 25% (025.0). For degrees requiring 12 (equally-weighted) modules over 4 full-time years, each would have proportion of FTE calculated as 33% (033.0). This could serve as a benchmark for calculating the FTE of non-standard modules, or modules falling within other programmes of study. For professional courses, the advice of the professional awarding body can be sought. Otherwise institutions are asked to make an academic judgement in relating the module to another module of a similar level, and simiIar academic subject category, which can be related to a 'standard' full-time programme of study. HESA accepts that the full-time equivalence will not be exact in all cases, but the aim is to give a better approximation than the use of arbitrary conversion factors. It is recognised that the actual student FTE associated with a programme of study may not simply be the aggregation of all modules followed by that student, and it is not expected that there will always be a precise correspondence between the aggregate 'proportion of FTE' fields and the student FTE field (field 74 of the student record). (See also notes of guidance in C04011 Supplementary Information relating to Field 74, Student FTE.) |
| Reason Required: | To support student load calculations. |
Valid Entries
| A percentage in the range 000.1 to 100.0. |
Validation Rules
| 026769 | This field must be completed. (Severity: 99) |
M_NOTEMPTY | |
| 026782 | This field must contain a percentage in the range 000.0 to 100.0 (Severity: 99) |
IsValidProportion(uiCurFieldNo,0,1000) | |
| 026783 | Module FTE's should usually be greater than zero. (Severity: 9) |
M_ISFIELD(uiCurFieldNo,"000.0") ? M_FALSE: M_TRUE |
