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HESA Student Record 2007/08 - Subject percentage

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HESA Student Record 2007/08

Fields required from institutions in Scotland

Subject percentage


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Short nameSBJPCNT
Typefield
Description

This field indicates the proportion of time allocated for each subject studied on a course. It should contain an integer between 1 and 100.

Applicable toEngland Northern Ireland Scotland Wales
Coverage

All course subject records

Base data typeSBJPCNTType
Field length3
Part of
Minimum occurrences1
Maximum occurrences1
Related fields
Reason required

To allow analysis and monitoring of the student population by subject of study.

Notes

This field allows institutions to assign their own percentages for joint honours courses. It is not expected that these percentages will be derived from a detailed analysis of the contributions of subjects to individual students' programmes of study but will instead be based on a broad assessment of the relative contributions of each subject. It is therefore expected that most institutions will apply the same percentages to all courses and only vary this where there is a substantially different expectation.

For institutions in England, Northern Ireland and Wales the listed standard percentages are recommended. Where broad assessment of the subject contributions markedly differs from these standard percentages alternative values can be returned.

For institutions in Scotland the listed standard percentages are obligatory.

Balanced50 for each of the two subjects
Major - Minor 67 and 33
Triple34, 33 and 33

For each Course entity the sum of SBJPCNT must equal 100.

The length of this field is 3 characters, however the move to XML enables data to be returned with or without leading zeros, e.g. 003 or 3.

OwnerHESA
Version1.5
Date modified2008-05-30
Change management notesBusiness rule 2 amended to re-instate Instance.ITTPHSC codes 51 and 52, and guidance added on the format for numeric data
Business rules
1(Error)

For each Course entity the sum of CourseSubject.SBJPCNT must equal 100

2(Error)

All CourseSubject.SBJPCNT must be coded '50' where any CourseSubject.SBJCA = F000 or C000 and Course.TTCID = 1 or 8 and any Instance.ITTPHSC = 24 - 26, 51 - 57, or 78 - 82

3(Error)

CourseSubject.SBJPCNT must contain 33, 34, 50, 67 or 100 for institutions in Scotland

Schema components
Element: SBJPCNT
Data type: SBJPCNTType

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