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HESA Aggregate record for students studying wholly outside the UK 2010/11

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HESA Aggregate return for student studying wholly overseas 2010/11

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Version 1.0 Produced 2011-04-28

C10052 Aggregate Offshore Record - stages of data submission.

The below document is designed to guide institutions through the stages of data submission for the Aggregate Offshore Record.

At a glance

August 2010 to March 2011 Institutions' local preparation
April 2011 Validate data locally using validation kit
June 2011 C10052 preparation guide released
August 2011 C10052 data collection opens
30 September 2011 Return date
14 October 2011 Commit date
14 October to 10 November 2011 Data quality checking period
10 November 2011 Last submission and sign-off

Detailed requirements

August 2010 to March 2011: INSTITUTIONS' LOCAL PREPARATION


Institutions should read the C10052 Aggregate Offshore Record coding manual and associated documentation for details of the requirements for the return.

If you have any queries with the requirements for the C10052 Aggregate Offshore Record please contact Institutional Liaison at [email protected].


April 2011: VALIDATE DATA LOCALLY USING VALIDATION KIT



The C10052 validation kit will be made available to download from Validation kits 2010/11.
The kit enables institutions to test their data locally against the INSERT-stage validation ahead of the main collection opening in the summer. Institutions are strongly encouraged to use the validation kit as part of their data preparations.

Further details on the checks included in INSERT-stage validation can be found within the field details of the C10052 field list and detail.

A guide to using the validaition kit can be found in Help with XML validation kits. Alternatively please can contact Institutional Liaison ([email protected]).

June 2011: C10052 AGGREGATE OFFSHORE PREPARATION GUIDE



In advance of the main collection opening HESA releases a preparation guide. This provides further guidance of the requirements for the collection year, with particular reference to any areas HESA's statutory customers wish institution to pay particular attention to during coding and submission.

Notification of the publication of this guide will be sent to Aggregate Offshore Record contacts, and is also circulated on sector mailgroups such as the Admin-HESA JISC mailgroup. If you would like to join Admin-HESA please contact [email protected].


August 2011: C10052 DATA COLLECTION OPENS



The C10052 collection database opens on the submit site around 4-6 weeks ahead of the return date providing institutions with the opportunity to further test files ahead of the return date deadline.

For a user guide for the submission of C10052 Aggregate Offshore Record data please visit Aggregate Offshore Collection (Cyy052).

Access and PIN codes for this system will be distributed to Aggregate Offshore Record contacts when the system opens.

HESA monitors all transactions on the system to ensure institutions are progressing reasonably and not encountering difficulties. However, if you require assistance with the submission process, please contact Institutional Liaison ([email protected]).


30 September 2011: RETURN DATE



Institutions are required to send complete data that has passed insert-stage validation to HESA by 30 September 2011.

A single validation failure will result in no data being imported into the system.

Data which fails validation will not be considered to have been returned to the Agency.


14 October 2011: COMMIT DATE


Institutions are advised to send complete data that has passed COMMIT-stage validation to HESA by 14 October 2011.

Commit-stage validation rules can be viewed at COMMIT-stage validation.

Data which fails validation will not be considered to have been returned to the Agency.


14 October to 10 November 2011: DATA QUALITY CHECKING PERIOD



A successful COMMIT will generate several reports. Institutions are required to review the reports and resubmit data in order to resolve data quality issues.
The reports for review are:

Hesa checkdoc Check documentation This Excel workbook contains a series of tables presenting the submitted data to enable institutions to check that their submission presents their institution as expected.
Hesa checkdoc compare Checkdoc Compare New for 2010/11! For each re-commit a second version of the check documentation will be available with colour shaded cells to denote changes between submissions. This tool will allow for quick comparison between data commits.
Exception Report Exception report

This report details any COMMIT-stage validation errors/warnings triggered by the submission.

Institutions are required to review the reports and to resubmit data in order to resolve data quality issues. Institutions can contact Institutional Liaison ([email protected]) throughout this period to request their data is decommitted in order to make adjustments to the submission. The data quality checking period is an iterative process during which institutions may need to submit, commit, review and decommit their data several times to ensure the fnal submission is credible.

During this period Data Analysts at HESA will also examine data committed by all institutions. If any anomalies are found queries will be raised with your institution, via Institutional Liaison to the Aggregate Offshore Record contact. Nevertheless institutions are in a better position to recognise more detailed anomalies within their data, using local knowledge of the intricacies of their own institution. As a consequence institutions are required to either resubmit their data to amend these anomalies, or provide an explanation via email to [email protected] as to why these apparent anomalies are genuine.

Upon completion of this process data will be set to credible.


10 November 2011: LAST SUBMISSION AND SIGN-OFF


In order to meet obligations for hand-over of data to its customers, HESA needs to receive all data files by 10 November 2011.

As part of the data quality assurance procedures, HESA requires the return to be signed-off by the head of your institution, or by a person with suitable authority. This verification offers both the institutions and HESA assurances regarding onward use of the data. Sign-off completes the data collection process.

Sign Off Slip
On the system your institution's data will be set to credible and a new icon will be made available from where the sign-off slip can be downloaded and completed. Once completed, the slip should be posted back to HESA at the address in the bar below. Please note that the transaction number on the sign-off slip must correspond to that of the data being signed-off

Note: Institutions should download and keep copies of all relevant reports that they are likely to need during the year, as it will be necessary to restrict access to the site after the submission deadline.


Onward use of C10052 Aggregate Offshore Record data


Following the close of the data collection all data submitted will be passed to HESA's Statutory Customers.

Data is also used by HESA in the following ways:
HESA Students in Higher Education publication
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General data enquiries

Contact Liaison by email or on +44 (0)1242 388 531.