HESA Student Record 2008/09 - Course identifier
HESA Student Record 2008/09Fields required from institutions in EnglandCourse identifier | return to field list |
Short name | COURSEID |
Type | field |
Description |
This field records the institution's own unique internal identifier for the course. |
Applicable to | England |
Coverage | All students |
Base data type | COURSEIDType |
Field length | 30 |
Part of | |
Minimum occurrences | 1 |
Maximum occurrences | 1 |
Reason required |
To facilitate cross-checking and comparison with the HESA Student Record |
Notes |
This field is identical to the Course.COURSEID in the Student record. Course identifiers will be allocated by the institution and must be unique for each course. Valid characters The valid characterset available for this field has been defined by a specific study undertaken as a part of the MIAP Common Data Definitions (CDD) project. The conclusions of this study were:
The character set chosen will support Welsh and Gaelic languages as well as all European and most other languages using a Latin-based character set. The Unicode charts that list each of the characters in this range can be found on the Unicode web site. The specific sets that are defined here are shown in the following PDF documents: Institutions are advised to specify the encoding used in their XML files (i.e. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>) and to ensure that their files are actually saved with that encoding. If XML files are edited with some text editors and the encoding is not specified or does not match the actual file encoding, there may be problems when submitting these files for validation. |
Owner | HESA |
Version | 1.1 |
Date modified | 2008-07-18 |
Change management notes | Note added to highlight change in data type requirement and the need to specify file encoding |
Schema components |
Element: COURSEID
Data type: COURSEIDType |
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