This field describes previous institution attended by the student.

All entrants where EntryProfile.DOMICILE = XF, XG, XH, XI, XK, XL, GG, JE or IM and Course.COURSEAIM = M22, M26, H00, H11, H16, H18, H22, H23, I00, I11, I16, J10, J16, J20, J26, J30, C20, C30 and Instance.REDUCEDI = 00 or 04

To monitor school, etc, background of students and to assist the tracking of students through their experience of higher education.

This field seeks to categorise types of expected code, and uses the first character to indicate from which code set the institute identifier belongs. Thus, H will signify either an HEI or an FEC, D signifies a government school number, and U a UCAS school number. The remaining characters in the field are used to insert the actual institution identifier.

For students entering through UCAS this information will be available from UCAS via the *J transaction.

UCAS will make available an HEI, FEC or government number, if they have one, or in the absence of same, default to the five digit UCAS number, but the letter prefixing the code will differentiate between type of institution.

UCAS holds the school/FE/HE or other institution from which the UCAS application was received. HESA recognises that this will give a small percentage statistical error in the data for this field.

For non-UCAS entrants institutions may use the generic codes and not provide details of individual named institutions. The generic codes are:

If the previous institution is not known and none of the other generic codes are suitable, code as H9999, U99999, U00000, D9999999 or D0000000, 9999 or 0000.