HESA Student Record 2008/09 - Previous Degree Length in Years
HESA Student Record 2008/09Fields required from institutions in EnglandPrevious Degree Length in Years | return to field list |
Short name | DEGLENGTH | |||
Type | field | |||
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 to | England | |||
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 type | xs:integer | |||
Field length | 2 | |||
Part of | ||||
Minimum occurrences | 0 | |||
Maximum occurrences | 1 | |||
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. | |||
Owner | GTCE | |||
Version | 1.2 | |||
Date modified | 2008-04-30 | |||
Change management notes | Note added to clarify the coding of Previous degree length as being based on course length under normal circumstances | |||
Business rules |
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Schema components |
Element: DEGLENGTH |
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