HESA Student Record 2008/09 - Immediately prior surname
HESA Student Record 2008/09Fields required from institutions in EnglandImmediately prior surname | return to field list |
Short name | PSURNAME |
Type | field |
Description |
This is the trainee's surname immediately prior to the current surname, if applicable |
Applicable to | England |
Coverage | All students where applicable |
Base data type | NameType |
Field length | 35 |
Part of | |
Minimum occurrences | 0 |
Maximum occurrences | 1 |
Reason required |
To create the student's GTCE record, to allow matching of records where a student has changed surname. |
Notes |
Where a student has had one or a number of previous surnames, this field records the surname used immediately before the current surname recorded in Student.SURNAME 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 | GTCE |
Version | 1.0 |
Schema components |
Element: PSURNAME
Data type: NameType |
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