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Initial Teacher Training In-Year Record 2010/11 - Course title

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Initial Teacher Training In-Year Record 2010/11

Fields required from institutions in England

Course title


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Typefield
Short nameCTITLE
Description

This field will be determined by the institution and in this context relates to the complete programme of study leading to the qualification aim referred to in fields Student.ITTAIM

Applicable toEngland
Coverage

All students

Notes

This field is identical to the Course.CTITLE field in the Student Record, with an additional requirement that this field is compulsory to allow reports to be ordered by Student.CTITLE.

This field will not be subject to specific checks regarding its validity. The only validation checks will be that the field must exist and contain at least one character.

Valid characters

The valid characterset available for this field follows the Data Standards in the HESA student 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:

Files must be encoded with UTF-8 and schema validation will be in place to ensure this. Institutions must specify the encoding used in their XML files in the first line of the file (i.e. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>) and to ensure that their files are actually saved with that encoding. If XML files are edited with some text editors and the encoding is not specified or does not match the actual file encoding, there may be problems when submitting these files for validation.

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

To facilitate HESA cross-checking with institutions and to identify courses in onward analyses.

Part of
Field length255
Minimum occurrences1
Maximum occurrences1
Schema components
Element: CTITLE
Data type: TitleType
Based on07051.Course.CTITLE 1.0
OwnerHESA
Version1.1
Date modified2010-06-30
Change management notesUpdated guidance to reflect requirement for files to have encoding specified

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