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HESA Student Record 2008/09 - Previous Degree Length in Years

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HESA Student Record 2008/09

Fields required from institutions in England

Previous Degree Length in Years


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Short nameDEGLENGTH
Typefield
Description

This records the course length in years of the qualification that makes a trainee eligible to undertake a postgraduate course of ITT at your establishment.

Applicable toEngland
Coverage

All postgraduate course entrants, that is, students where Student.COMDATE is in the current reporting period and where Student.ITTAIM is a postgraduate qualification (110, 113, 020 or 031)

Base data typexs:integer
Field length2
Part of
Minimum occurrences0
Maximum occurrences1
Reason required

To create the student's GTCE record

Notes

This field records the actual number of years of study taken to complete the qualification that makes a trainee eligible to undertake a postgraduate course of ITT, excluding any intermissions.

The previous degree length will usually be taken as the nearest number in whole years as can be defined in the Student.UNITLGTH and Student.SPLENGTH fields.

OwnerGTCE
Version1.2
Date modified2008-04-30
Change management notesNote added to clarify the coding of Previous degree length as being based on course length under normal circumstances
Business rules
1(Error)

Student.DEGLENGTH must exist where Student.COMDATE is in the current reporting period and Student.ITTAIM is a postgraduate qualification (110, 113, 020 or 031)

Schema components
Element: DEGLENGTH

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