HESA Student Record 2012/13 - Fundability code
HESA Student Record 2012/13Fields common to all countriesFundability code | return to field list | valid entries |
Type | field |
Short name | FUNDCODE |
Description |
This field indicates whether the student is counted as 'fundable', ie. 'eligible for funding' for the course by the appropriate funding council/body. The definition therefore may vary between England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, in line with their funding methods. |
Applicable to | England Northern Ireland Scotland Wales |
Coverage | All instances where Instance.REDUCEDI = 00 or 01 |
Valid entries and labels | |
Notes |
This field must be coded at the individual student instance level. Fundable means eligible for funding by the appropriate funding council/body, as defined by that council/body. This field should be consistent with the year's early student statistics returns to the funding councils. Eligible students on courses funded by SFA/EFA or WG-DfES should be coded 1 'Fundable by funding council'. For institutions funded by the HEFCE and DELNIUndergraduate and postgraduate taught studentsTo be consistent with the year's early statistics, this field applies to 'eligible for core funding' in the HESES return. It has been confirmed by the funding councils that it is possible for students coded 01-04 (funding councils) in Course.MSFUND to be returned as 2 'Not fundable by funding council/body'. An example of where this is applicable is courses funded through special funding initiatives. The guidance for coding non-fundable students on funded courses should be to code to the appropriate funding council in Course.MSFUND and code as 2 'Not fundable by funding council/body' in this field. For old regime students (Instance.FEEREGIME = 10) where the major source of funding for the course is HEFCE or DELNI, but there is another EU public source funding a certain number of places then this number of places must be shown as non-fundable in this field. In most cases, it is expected that it will be clear from payment of tuition fees which individual student places are being funded from another source and so are not fundable by HEFCE or DELNI. For the small number of cases where this is not so, institutions shall have the discretion as to which individual students to return as fundable, and which as not fundable, provided that the total student numbers conform to the split between fundable and non-fundable places. FUNDCODE = 3 applies to institutions in Scotland only. From 2012/13 instances fundable by funding council should be returning under code 1 'Fundable by funding council' irrespective of whether funding was taken up or not. Previously a distinction was made between the two circumstances which is no longer required. For the Open University and all institutions funded by the HEFCE and DELNIPostgraduate research studentsUse of FUNDCODE = 1All fundable postgraduate research students should be returned as FUNDCODE = 1. Fundable postgraduate research students are Home and EC students registered at the reporting institution for a research-based higher degree and should be actively supervised by an academic member of staff employed by a higher education institution in England (for HEFCE-funded institutions) or Northern Ireland (for DELNI-funded institutions). Students who spend more than half of their active study time for the whole programme outside the UK should be returned as FUNDCODE = 1 only where:
Students meeting the above criteria should be recorded as FUNDCODE = 1 despite being recorded as non-fundable on the HESES return. FUNDCODE = 3 applies to institutions in Scotland only. For institutions funded by the SFCUse of FUNDCODE = 1To be consistent with the year's early statistics, this field applies to 'eligible for core funding' in the HESES return. It has been confirmed by the funding councils that it is possible for students coded 01-04 (funding councils) in Course.MSFUND to be returned as 2 'Not fundable by funding council/body'. An example of where this is applicable is courses funded through special funding initiatives. The guidance for coding non-fundable students on funded courses should be to code to the appropriate funding council in Course.MSFUND and code as 2 'Not fundable by funding council/body' in this field. Institutions funded by SFC should note that a particular funding cell may have 100 'fundable' students, but the funding council may provide funding for only 80 student places in that cell. Provided that they satisfy the conditions for being counted in the 'Early Statistics' figures, all 100 students should be identified as eligible for funding: one cannot say which of them were 'fees only' students, as the funding relates to the cell as a whole. FUNDCODE = 3Code 3 'Not eligible for funding (as defined for the SFC 'Early Statistics') but is a Continuing Professional Development course (as defined by SFC)' is for use by institutions in Scotland only. Where code 3 is applicable it should be used in preference to code 2 'Not fundable by funding council/body'. For institutions funded by the HEFCWTo be consistent with the year's early statistics, this field applies to 'eligible for core funding' in the HESES return. It has been confirmed by the funding councils that it is possible for students coded 01-04 (funding councils) in Course.MSFUND to be returned as 2 'Not fundable by funding council/body'. An example of where this is applicable is courses funded through special funding initiatives. The guidance for coding non-fundable students on funded courses should be to code to the appropriate funding council in Course.MSFUND and code as 2 'Not fundable by funding council/body' in this field. FUNDCODE = 3 applies to institutions in Scotland only. FUNDCODE = 7 is not available for institutions in Wales. |
Examples |
A non-EU overseas student is an example of a particular student who is not eligible for funding, even if the course that they are following has funding for student places. Please refer any queries about whether or not students on a particular course or students of a particular type are eligible for funding to the appropriate funding council/body rather than to HESA. |
Quality rules |
Quality rules relating to this field are displayed here.
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Reason required |
To assess accuracy of early returns (Early Statistics), to inform eligibility for HEFCE research funding, and to identify health and social care students and teacher training students. |
Part of | |
Field length | 1 |
Minimum occurrences | 0 |
Maximum occurrences | 1 |
Schema components |
Element: FUNDCODE
Data type: FUNDCODECodeContentType |
Owner | HESA |
Version | 1.2 |
Date modified | 2013-06-25 |
Change management notes | Guidance amended in the Notes section, to specify that where there is an EU public source funding a certain number of places, these places should be returned as non-fundable in Instance.FUNDCODE. |
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