Initial Teacher Training In-Year Record 2009/10 - Student instance identifier
Initial Teacher Training In-Year Record 2009/10Fields required from institutions in EnglandStudent instance identifier | return to field list |
Type | field |
Short name | NUMHUS |
Description |
This field complements the HUSID field to identify the separate courses that individuals take. HUSID + Institution identifier + NUMHUS together form a unique identifier known as HIN. An identification of the basic unit of 'a coherent engagement with the institution aiming towards the award of a qualification(s) or credit'. |
Applicable to | England |
Coverage | All students |
Notes |
This is identical to the Instance.NUMHUS field in the Student record. Field length 20 is to allow institutions to use an instance identifier already held internally. Where a instance identifier held internally is used, institutions must continue to use this number even when transfers or natural progressions occur. As a consequence of this institutions may find it easier to number student instances sequentially starting from 1 or A etc. A new instance number format can only be introduced for instances that have not been returned to HESA. This will be the case for new entrants and for continuing students commencing courses that have not previously been returned to HESA. Valid characters The valid characterset available for this field follows the Data Standards in the HESA record.
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. |
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Reason required |
To distinguish - and between years, link - episodes of study by the same student at the same institution; a vital tool (through the generation of HIN) to support year-on-year linkage. |
Part of | |
Field length | 20 |
Minimum occurrences | 1 |
Maximum occurrences | 1 |
Schema components |
Element: NUMHUS
Data type: NUMHUSType |
Based on | 07051.Instance.NUMHUS 1.0 |
Owner | HESA |
Version | 1.1 |
Date modified | 2009-08-21 |
Change management notes | Further detail provided for file encoding |
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