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HESA Student Record 2013/14 - Module title

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HESA Student Record 2013/14

Fields required from institutions in Scotland

Module title


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Typefield
Short nameMTITLE
Description

This field is determined by the institution and, in this context, relates to the specific module which in turn can be a component in many courses.

Applicable toEngland Northern Ireland Scotland Wales
Coverage

All modules

Notes

Although a compulsory field, this field will not be subject to specific checks regarding its validity. The only validation checks will be that the field contains at least one character.

Users of HESA data will occasionally consult this field in order to gain a better understanding of the subjects/activity contained in the module. Therefore institutions are encouraged to make these data meaningful where this does not significantly add to the burden of collection

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+007E, U+00A0 to U+024F and U+1E00 to U+1EFF.
  • 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 provide greater insight than achieved through subject codes alone.

Part of
Field length80
Minimum occurrences1
Maximum occurrences1
Schema components
Element: MTITLE
Data type: MTitleType
OwnerHESA
Version1.0

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