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HESA Student Record 2009/10 - New entrant to higher education

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HESA Student Record 2009/10

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New entrant to higher education


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Short nameNEWENT
Typefield
Description

This field indicates if a student has previously studied at HE level in the UK for six months or more.

Applicable toEngland Northern Ireland Scotland Wales
Coverage

All entrants to courses where Course.COURSEAIMbegins D, E, L, M, H, I, J or C and Instance.REDUCEDI = 00 or 04

Base data typeNEWENTCodeType
Field length1
Part of
Minimum occurrences0
Maximum occurrences1
Reason required

To analyse patterns of entry into HE, including the Higher Education Initial Participation Rate (HEIPR) calculation made by BIS

Notes

Institutions should request new entrant to HE information directly from students during the enrolment/registration process, and not infer it from information in the QualificationsOnEntry entity fields. BIS are keen to encourage capture of this information directly rather than by inference, and so have offered the following further guidance to reinforce this requirement.

Institutions should ask students a direct question along the lines of: 'Have you ever started a higher education course (i.e. above A level or equivalent) in the UK before, and if so did you attend this course for 6 months or more?' Institutions should ensure that the question stresses that this question refers to activity undertaken in HE prior to the commencement of their current instance of study to prevent the field being erroneously updated by continuing students when they update registration details in subsequent years.

The outcome of any previous HE study is not relevant to this particular field. This field is very important to BIS because it is used to identify "initial entrants" and it helps to inform the monitoring of progress towards the Government's HE participation targets.

What is important is whether or not the student is new to HE level courses, not whether the student is new to the HE institution sector. For example, a student who has already taken an HNC or HND at a UK FE college is not a new entrant to HE. HE, for the purposes of this field, is defined as those programmes of study for which the level of instruction is above that of courses leading to GCE 'A' levels, SCE 'Highers' and the Certificate of Sixth Year Studies, ONC and OND.

Code A includes all students who have previously studied a course at HE level for a minimum of six months either at the reporting institution or at another UK institution.

Code A should be used for all students who have previously studied at higher education level for a minimum of six months, at a UK institution, whether or not the course resulted in success.

A student who started an HE course but subsequently left within six months should be coded B.

Overseas students who have previously studied at HE level but not in the UK should be coded B.

Where a student transfers from one course to another, this field should NOT be updated where the same Instance.NUMHUS is kept.

Code C should not be used as a standard default but only in cases where the information has been sought but is still unknown.

OwnerHESA
Version1.1
Date modified2010-04-30
Change management notesBusiness rule 1 updated to add Instance.REDUCEDI = 04 to the coverage of the field. Business rules 2 and 3 updated to move EntryProfile.QUALENT2 = 25 and 29 from error to warning. Additional guidance added: ' Institutions should ensure that the question stresses that this question refers to activity undertaken in HE prior to the commencement of their current instance of study to prevent the field being erroneously updated by continuing students when they update registration details in subsequent years.'
Business rules
1(Error)

EntryProfile.NEWENT must exist where Course.COURSEAIM begins D, E, L, M, H, I, J or C and corresponding Instance.REDUCEDI = 00 or 04 and Instance.COMDATE after 31 July 2007.

2(Error)

EntryProfile.NEWENT cannot be coded B or C if EntryProfile.QUALENT2 is 01, 03, 04, 10 or 11.

3(Warning)

EntryProfile.NEWENT should not be coded B or C if EntryProfile.QUALENT2 is 02, 05, 16, 23, 24, 25, 28, 29, 30, 15, 21, 22 or 27.

Schema components
Element: NEWENT
Valid entries and labels
AThis student has had prior HE experience in the UK lasting six months or more
BThis student has not had prior HE experience in the UK lasting six months or more
CIt is not known whether this student has had prior HE experience in the UK lasting six months or more

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