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Initial Teacher Training In-Year Record 2009/10 - Course identifier

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Initial Teacher Training In-Year Record 2009/10

Fields required from institutions in England

Course identifier


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Typefield
Short nameCOURSEID
Description

This field records the institution's own unique internal identifier for the course.

Applicable toEngland
Coverage

All students

Notes

This field is identical to the Course.COURSEID in the Student record.

Course identifiers will be allocated by the institution and must be unique for each course.

Valid characters

The valid characterset available for this field follows the Data Standards in the HESA record.

  • The general policy is to support all Latin-based characters for names, addresses and general text fields, but not non-Latin characters.
  • All Unicode code charts for Latin characters are supported. These are Basic Latin (excluding the C0 control characters), Latin-1 (excluding the C1 control characters), Latin Extended A, Latin Extended B and Latin Extended Additional. This set corresponds to Unicode code points U+0020 to U+007F and U+00A0 to U+024F.
  • Schemas are built in such a way that an individual project can further restrict the set if required.

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:

XML files must be encoded with UTF-8 if they contain characters beyond the standard ASCII character set. Institutions are advised to specify the encoding used in their XML files (i.e. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>) and to ensure that their files are actually saved with that encoding. Files with an explicit encoding declaration other than UTF-8 will be rejected. Files with undeclared encoding will be assumed to be UTF-8. If encoding is not specified or does not match the actual file encoding, institutions are warned that there is a risk that data contained in the files may be changed on submission to HESA.

Quality rules
Quality rules relating to this field are displayed here.
Reason required

To facilitate cross-checking and comparison with the HESA Student Record

Part of
Field length30
Minimum occurrences1
Maximum occurrences1
Schema components
Element: COURSEID
Data type: COURSEIDType
Based on07051.Course.COURSEID 1.0
OwnerHESA
Version1.1
Date modified2009-08-21
Change management notes Further detail provided for file encoding

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