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HESA Student Record 2007/08 - Student instance FTE

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HESA Student Record 2007/08

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Student instance FTE


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Short nameSTULOAD
Typefield
Description

This field holds the student FTE, representing the institution's best academic judgement of the full-time equivalence of the student (for this instance) during the reporting year 1 August - 31 July. The value can be recorded to one decimal place and must be between 0 and 300.

Applicable toEngland Northern Ireland Scotland Wales
Coverage

All instances where Instance.REDUCEDI = 00, 01, 02 or 03

Base data typeFTEType
Field length5
Part of
Minimum occurrences0
Maximum occurrences1
Reason required

To allow analysis by FTE, representing student load, rather than by headcount or apportioned numbers; particularly significant for analysing PT load.

Examples

Example A student studying the equivalent of a three year course over five years would be returned as 60.

A student studying 30 credits in the current year, in the case where 120 credits is the norm for a full-time student, would be returned as 25.

Notes

Full-time, full year students would normally be returned as 100 and part-time students returned as a proportion of an equivalent full-time course. Comparisons and weightings of different full-time, full year courses are not expected. The proportion of part-time study can be estimated on either a 'time' or a 'credit' basis. The FTE should not be weighted to take account of any resourcing implications of different courses.

All students following a course would initially be assumed to have the same FTE. An adjustment may need to be made at individual student level if a student did not actually follow the whole course academic year, e.g. because they left half way through. This individual student adjustment need only be at a very broad-brush level.

The calculation of FTE therefore becomes a function of proportion (that the course represents of a full-time benchmark course) x time (amount of the course that the student followed in the HESA reporting year).

It is recognised that this cannot be exact in all cases and a strict pro-rata model is not expected. The aim is to give a better approximation than the use of arbitrary conversion factors.

In the case of years of programme which span two HESA reporting years (for example an MSc student with a 01 October - 30 September year) institutions in Scotland can return the FTE using either the pro-rata (50:50), 100:0 or 0:100 method as indicated in Instance.FTEMETHOD. However for institutions in England, Wales and Northern Ireland the Student FTE should be split across the two HESA reporting years. This does not have to be an exact pro-rata split: a reasonable approximation is sufficient (for example the institution might assume that 85% of the FTE related to the period October - July and 15% to the period August - September).

Institutions in England, Wales or Northern Ireland who previously did not return student load using the pro-rata (50:50) method should return the 2007-08 record as if they had always used this method, and HEFCE have indicated that the same guidance will apply to the 2007 HESES return. Further detail is included in the summary of main changes document.

Further detailed notes are available in the supporting documents.

The length of this field is 5 characters, however the move to XML enables data to be returned with or without leading zeros or the decimal place, e.g. 005.0 or 5.0 or 5

OwnerHESA
Version1.4
Date modified2008-08-20
Change management notesAdded check for REDUCEDI in business rule 5 and 6
Business rules
1(Error)

Instance.STULOAD must exist where Instance.REDUCEDI = 00, 01, 02 or 03

2(Error)

Instance.STULOAD must be 0 where Instance.MODE = 63 or 64

3(Error)

Instance.STULOAD must not be 0 where Instance.MODE =01, 02, 23, 24, 25, 31, 52, 53, 73 or 74 and Instance.TYPEYR = 1

4(Warning)

Instance.STULOAD should not be 0 where Course.COURSEAIM begins D or L and Instance.MODE = 01 or 02 and Instance.YEARSTU = 01, 02 or 03

5(Warning)

Where REDUCEDI = 00 or 01, Instance.STULOAD+100.0 is less than sum of Module.FTE for the student instance: check modules linked to this instance

6(Error)

Where REDUCEDI = 00 or 01, Instance.STULOAD is greater than 0 where sum of Module.FTE for the student instance is 0

Schema components
Element: STULOAD
Data type: FTEType

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