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HESA Student Record 2013/14 - Completion of year of instance

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HESA Student Record 2013/14

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Completion of year of instance


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Typefield
Short nameFUNDCOMP
Description

This field refers to the year of instance being funded. The field records the student's completion status with respect to that year.

Applicable toEngland Northern Ireland Wales
Coverage

All instances at institutions in England, Northern Ireland and Wales where Instance.REDUCEDI = 00 or 01

Valid entries and labels
CodeLabel
1Completed the current year of programme of study
2Did not complete the current year of programme of study
3Year of programme of study not yet completed, but has not failed to complete
4Partially completed the year of study (HEFCW HESES rules)
9Not in HESES Population
Notes

Coding should be consistent with funding council early statistics. Refer to relevant funding council for full definitions.

Normally when code 2 is returned, then either Instance.RSNEND and Instance.ENDDATE will be completed to end the student instance, or Instance.NOTACT will be completed to show the study is suspended. It has become more common for students to fail to complete the current year of instance but continue to study with the institution, this is particularly true of part-time students who drop a module.

Code 4 'is as defined in HEFCW HESES, and should be used for students studying full-time on taught courses only.

Code 9 can be used if the HESA reporting year does not contain, in part or in whole, a year of instance which has previously, is, or will be, included in the HESES population. Institutions can however also use the other codes for such records.

Where a student undertakes a foundation degree and bridging course in the same HESA reporting year Instance.FUNDCOMP, should reflect whether the student completed the foundation degree and will therefore usually be returned with a value of 1. Similarly where the student progresses to a degree after completion of the bridging course this field should reflect the completion status of the degree.

Any queries on this field should be addressed to HEFCE. Some additional guidance can be found in HESES.

Quality rules
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Reason required

To monitor completion status according to funding definitions. Used in a wide variety of analyses to identify students who have completed/partially completed their year of study, and to estimate numbers of non-completions.

Part of
Field length1
Minimum occurrences0
Maximum occurrences1
Schema components
Element: FUNDCOMP
OwnerHESA
Version1.1
Date modified2014-04-29
Change management notesBusiness rule 4 updated for institutions in Wales to remove the references to Instance.MODE codes 52 and 53 from the list of valid codes for partial completions.

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