HESA Student Record 2008/09 - Forenames
HESA Student Record 2008/09Fields required from institutions in EnglandForenames | return to field list |
Short name | FNAMES | ||||||
Type | field | ||||||
Description |
This field records the forenames of the student. | ||||||
Applicable to | England | ||||||
Coverage | All students | ||||||
Base data type | NameWithNullStructure | ||||||
Field length | 35 | ||||||
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Minimum occurrences | 1 | ||||||
Maximum occurrences | 1 | ||||||
Reason required |
To facilitate HESA checking data with institutions and for Statutory Customers to link student records collected by HESA for statistical purposes. | ||||||
Notes |
This field is identical to the Student.FNAMES field in the Student record, with the additional requirement that as this field will be used to create the student's GTCE record it should contain the student's legal forenames. In cases where the student does not split their name between family and forenames, the whole name should be entered in Student.SURNAME and an empty element should be returned with the ReasonForNull attribute set to 9 (not applicable), i.e: <FNAMES ReasonForNull="9"></FNAMES> This information is available from UCAS and GTTR. The field length has been set to 35 characters to align this field with MIAP definitions. Valid characters The question of valid characters is significant in this field since many names include characters with accents and other diacritics that are not supported by the standard ASCII characterset. 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: | ||||||
Owner | Managing Information Across Partners - Common Data Definitions | ||||||
Version | 1.0 | ||||||
Business rules |
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Schema components |
Element: FNAMES
Data type: NameWithNullStructure |
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