The field records whether an employer contributes to tuition fees.

All instances at providers in Wales where Instance.MODE = 31 or 44 and Instance.REDUCEDI = 00.

Codes 01 or 02 should be used when it is known that the tuition fees are paid in whole or in part by the student’s employer. This could be by paying fees directly to the provider, by providing bursary support towards fees or by providing another type of fee support (e.g. training loans).

If the student pays the fees through a loan/grant/waiver, or the fees are paid from a public source, such as the NHS, WG or the Home Office, code 03 should be used.

If the student pays the fees directly themselves, codes 01, 02, 03 or 99 should be used as appropriate depending on information available as it may not be clear whether the money has come from an employer or not.

If the source of the tuition fee is the student’s employer and the employer is a public body, the course is run specifically to train people that work in that public body and the whole course or a large proportion of the course is funded by the public source (for example, provision commissioned by NHS Workforce, Education and Development Services) and the fees are automatically paid by the public body for eligible students; then the tuition fee would be considered to be from a public source. If the public body as an employer is providing funds to pay for the tuition fee for an individual on a course, then the source would considered to be the employer.

It is not necessary that there is a direct link between the job the student is employed in and the course the student is on.

To obtain the number of part-time student instances whose fees are wholly or partly funded by the student's employer in order to assess if changes in the part-time funding regime affect the level of employer contributions, impacting on the supply and demand for part-time provision.