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Initial Teacher Training In-Year Record 2013/14 - Bursary Level Award

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Initial Teacher Training In-Year Record 2013/14

Fields required from institutions in England

Bursary Level Award


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Typefield
Short nameBURSLEV
Description

Bursary level awarded

Applicable toEngland
Coverage

All students.

Valid entries and labels
CodeLabel
1Bottom
2Middle
3Top
4Scholarship
5Primary specialist
6No Bursary awarded
Notes

This field documents the training bursary awarded to the student, on the basis of their highest qualification on entry.

Whether or not a student is receipt of training discretionary awards is recorded in Student.DISCFUND.

A student will only hold one bursary – either the Core Bursary Award (codes 1-3), a Scholarship (code 4) or Primary specialist (code 5).

Code 5 'Primary specialist' can only be returned for trainees on a primary teaching scheme, identified in Student.ITTPHSC.

Further guidance on the types of bursary, and the amounts available, may be found in the NCTL document ‘Training Bursary Guide: Academic Year 2013/14’.

Highest qualification 1st (Top) 2:1 (Middle) 2:2 (Bottom) Not eligible
PhD (1) X
1st class honours degree* X
Medical Masters (distinction) X
Masters (2) X
2:1 honours degree* X
2:2 honours degree* X
3rd class honours degree X
Aegrotat (3) X
Ordinary degree X
No first degree X

Notes:

  1. Honorary doctoral degrees are not recognised by QAA as academic qualifications.
  2. These do not include the MA granted on application by the University of Oxford or Cambridge. Please see Section 4 of the guidance (Training Bursary Guide: Academic Year 2013/14) for more details.
  3. Aegrotats are degrees awarded in lieu of illness if a trainee was unable to sit their final exams.
*or equivalent.
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Reason required

To ensure correct level of funding for Bursaries.

Part of
Field length1
Minimum occurrences1
Maximum occurrences1
Schema components
Element: BURSLEV
OwnerNational College for Teaching and Leadership
Version1.3
Date modified2013-10-21
Change management notesBusiness Rules 6, 7, 10 and 11 downgraded from 'Error' to 'Warning'.

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