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Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education record 2015/16 - Name of university or college - Q28

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Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education record 2015/16

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Name of university or college - Q28


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Typefield
Short nameUCNAME
Description

This data item records the name of the university or college that the HE leaver was attending on the census date.

Applicable toEngland Northern Ireland Scotland Wales
Coverage

All HE leavers where Student.ALLACT is coded 5 or 6.

QuestionQ28. What is the name of the university or college at which you were registered?
Notes

All of the text (up to a maximum of 50 characters) completed by the HE leaver must be returned.

This data item records the name of the university or college that relates to the location the HE leaver considers to be the higher education provider (HEP) of their MAIN study.

A response to the question is expected if the following codes were used for Q1 (Student.ALLACT): 5 'Engaged in full-time further study, training or research' or 6 'Engaged in part-time further study, training or research'.

Valid characters

The question of valid characters is significant in this data item since many names include characters with accents and other diacritics that are not supported by the standard ASCII character set.

  • The general policy is to support all Latin-based characters for names, addresses and general text data items, 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. HEPs 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.

Required for valid responseNo
To be asked of third partyYes
Quality rules
Quality rules relating to this field are displayed here.
Reason required

To capture mobility of leavers undertaking further study, training or research.

Part of
Field length50
Minimum occurrences0
Maximum occurrences1
Schema components
Element: UCNAME
Data type: UCNAMEType
OwnerHESA
Version1.0

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