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HESA Student Record 2014/15 - Mobility scheme

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HESA Student Record 2014/15

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Mobility scheme


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Typefield
Short nameMOBSCHEME
Description

This field records the type of mobility scheme that the student is on.

Applicable toEngland Northern Ireland Scotland Wales
Coverage

All Mobility records

Valid entries and labels
CodeLabel
01Provider
02Sandwich placement which meets the criteria set out by funding councils, not including ERASMUS+
03ERASMUS+
04Other scheme
Notes

Code 01 'Provider' includes anything organised as part of the provider's course (i.e. placements, field work etc.)

Code 02 should be used for sandwich placement students, to identify which Mobility experience counts as their sandwich placement. This should exclude any placement that is part of an ERASMUS+ scheme, which should be coded 03. The definition of sandwich in this instance should be consistent with funding council definitions as set out in Instance.MODE.

Code 03 includes Erasmus Mundus, Comenius, Tempus and Erasmus for All.

Junior Year Abroad (JYA) schemes should be coded 04 'Other scheme'.

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Reason required

For comparison purposes to create an accurate picture of the activity, monitoring trends, and for use in further studies into the longer-term impact of participation on mobile students, for example employability, etc.

Part of
Field length2
Minimum occurrences1
Maximum occurrences1
Schema components
Element: MOBSCHEME
OwnerHESA
Version1.1
Date modified2015-01-29
Change management notesThe labels for valid entries 02 and 03 and references in the Notes section have been amended to change 'ERASMUS' programmes to 'ERASMUS+' in line with the rebranding of the EU's exchange programmes to this term.

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