HESA Aggregate record for students studying wholly outside the UK 2013/14
HESA Aggregate return for student studying wholly overseas 2013/14Data collection schedule |
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Version 1.1 Produced 2014-08-29
C13052 Aggregate offshore record - stages of data submission.
The below document is designed to guide HEPs through the stages of data submission for the Aggregate offshore record.
At a glance
| August 2013 to March 2014 | Providers' local preparation |
| April 2014 | Validate data locally using validation kit |
| June 2014 | C13052 preparation guide released |
| August 2014 | C13052 data collection opens |
| 30 September 2014 | Return date |
| 13 October 2014 | Commit date |
| 13 October to 7 November 2014 | Data quality checking period |
| 7 November 2014 | Last submission |
| 10 November 2014 | Sign-off |
Detailed requirements
HEPs should read the C13052 Aggregate offshore record coding manual and associated documentation for details of the requirements for the return.
If you have any queries with the requirements for the C13052 Aggregate offshore
record please contact Institutional Liaison.
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The C13052 validation kit will be made available to download from Validation kits 2013/14. The kit enables HEPs to test their data locally against the INSERT-stage validation ahead of the main collection opening in the summer. Providers are strongly encouraged to use the validation kit as part of their data preparations.
Further details on the checks included in INSERT-stage validation can be found within the field details of the C13052 field list and detail.
A guide to using the validation kit can be found in Help with XML validation kits. Alternatively please contact Institutional Liaison.|
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In advance of the main collection opening HESA releases a preparation guide. This provides further guidance of the requirements for the collection year, with particular reference to any areas HESA's statutory customers wish providers to pay particular attention to during coding and submission.
Notification of the publication of this guide will be sent to Aggregate offshore record contacts, and is also circulated on sector mailgroups such as the HESA-STUDENT JISC mailgroup. If you would like to join HESA-STUDENT please contact Institutional Liaison.
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The C13052 collection database opens on the submit site around 4-6 weeks ahead of the return date providing HEPs with the opportunity to further test files ahead of the return date deadline.
For a user guide for the submission of C13052 Aggregate offshore record data please visit Aggregate offshore record user guide.
Access and PIN codes for this system will be distributed to Aggregate offshore record contacts when the system opens.
HESA monitors all transactions on the system to ensure HEPs are progressing reasonably and not encountering difficulties. However, if you require assistance with the submission process, please contact Institutional Liaison.
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HEPs are required to send complete data that has passed insert-stage validation to HESA by 30 September 2014.
A single validation failure will result in no data being imported into the system.
Data which fails validation will not be considered to have been returned to the
Agency.
HEPs are advised to send complete data that has passed COMMIT-stage validation to HESA by 14 October 2013.
Commit-stage validation rules can be viewed at COMMIT-stage validation.
Data which fails validation will not be considered to have been returned to the Agency.
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A successful COMMIT will generate several reports. Providers are required to
review the reports and resubmit data in order to resolve data quality issues.
The reports for review are:
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Check documentation |
This Excel workbook contains a series of tables presenting the submitted data to
enable providers to check that their submission represents their organisation as
expected.
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Checkdoc Compare | For each re-commit a second version of the check documentation will be available with colour shaded cells to denote changes between submissions. This tool will allow for quick comparison between data commits. |
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Exception report |
This report details any COMMIT-stage validation errors/warnings triggered by the submission. |
HEPs are required to review the reports and to resubmit data in order to resolve data quality issues. HEPs can contact Institutional Liaison throughout this period to request their data is decommitted in order to make adjustments to the submission. The data quality checking period is an iterative process during which HEPs may need to submit, commit, review and decommit their data several times to ensure the fnal submission is credible.
During this period Data Analysts at HESA will also examine data committed by all HEPs. If any anomalies are found queries will be raised with the HEP, via Institutional Liaison, to the Aggregate offshore record contact. Nevertheless HEPs are in a better position to recognise more detailed anomalies within their data, using local knowledge of the intricacies of their own HEP. As a consequence, HEPs are required to either resubmit their data to amend these anomalies, or provide an explanation to Institutional Liaison as to why these apparent anomalies are genuine.
Upon completion of this process data will be set to credible.
In order to meet obligations for hand-over of data to its customers, HESA needs to receive all data files by 7 November 2014.
As part of the data quality assurance procedures, HESA requires the return to be signed-off by the head of your provider, or by a person with suitable authority. This verification offers both the HEPs and HESA assurances regarding onward use of the data. Sign-off completes the data collection process.
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On the system, the provider's data will be set to credible and a new icon will be made available from where the sign-off form can be downloaded and completed. Once completed, the form should be scanned and emailed back to [email protected]. Please note that the transaction number on the sign-off form must correspond to that of the data being signed-off. |
Note: Providers should download and keep copies of all relevant reports that they are likely to need during the year, as it will be necessary to restrict access to the site after the submission deadline.
Following the close of the data collection all data submitted will be passed to HESA's Statutory Customers and also to the HESA Information Services team.
Data is also used by HESA in the following ways:
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Contact Liaison by email or on +44 (0)1242 388 531.