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HESA Student Record 2011/12 - Indicator for HEFCE funding approximations

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HESA Student Record 2011/12

Fields required from institutions in England

Indicator for HEFCE funding approximations


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Typefield
Short nameINSTAPP
Description

This field describes whether an institution is opting to complete the fields Instance.LOADYRA, Instance.LOADYRB and StudentOnModule.MODYR that will allow HEFCE to remove the approximations that are currently included in their re-creation of the HESES return which counts FTE against years of instance rather than HESA reporting years.

Applicable toEngland Northern Ireland
Coverage

Institutions in England and Northern Ireland

Valid entries and labels
CodeLabel
0Institution relying on HEFCE algorithms for HESES recreation
1Institution choosing to provide additional information in records to reduce the reliance on HEFCE approximations for HESES recreation
Notes

Institutions can opt to provide additional information in the Student record which HEFCE will then use to count FTE against years of instance in place of the approximations used in the HESES recreation algorithms.

If institutions do opt to provide this information, then the fields Instance.LOADYRA, Instance.LODYRB and StudentOnModule.MODYR must be completed for all student instances in the record. Institutions would indicate this by completing this field with code 1 ‘Institution choosing to provide additional information in records to reduce the reliance on HEFCE approximations for HESES recreation’.

If institutions are content to continue using the HEFCE algorithms, then this field will be completed with Code 0 ‘Institution relying on HEFCE algorithms for HESES recreation’

HEFCE advises that provision of the additional information is only likely to make a significant difference for institutions with high numbers of student instances with non-standard academic years and where these numbers are changing substantially year on year or the intensity of study or cost centre mix changes over the duration of the programme. The change to counting method for HESES11 means that even where these fields are completed HEFCE will continue to have to make some approximations.

Quality rules
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Reason required

To allow institutions to provide information to be used in HEFCE HESES recreation algorithms.

Part of
Field length1
Minimum occurrences0
Maximum occurrences1
Schema components
Element: INSTAPP
Related fields
OwnerHESA
Version1.1
Date modified2012-04-30
Change management notesGuidance updated to state that this field is used by HEFCE to determine to what extent approximations should be used when recreating the HESES population. Valid entry '1' revised from 'Institution choosing to provide additional information in records & not rely on HEFCE approximations for HESES recreation' to 'Institution choosing to provide additional information in records to reduce the reliance on HEFCE approximations for HESES recreation' to more accurately state the level of approximations used by HEFCE.

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