Initial Teacher Training record 2015/16 - Previous degree length in years
Initial Teacher Training record 2015/16Fields required from institutions in EnglandPrevious degree length in years | return to field list |
| Type | field |
| Short name | DEGLENGTH |
| Description |
This records the course length in years of the qualification that makes a trainee eligible to undertake a postgraduate course of ITT at your establishment. |
| Applicable to | England |
| Coverage | All postgraduate course entrants, that is, students where Student.COMDATE is in the current reporting period and where Student.ITTAIM is a postgraduate qualification (110, 113, 020, 031 or (032 and Student.INITIATIVES is F, G or J)). |
| Notes |
This field records the actual number of years of study taken to complete the qualification that makes a trainee eligible to undertake a postgraduate course of ITT, excluding any intermissions. The previous degree length will usually be taken as the nearest number in whole years as can be defined in the Student.UNITLGTH and Student.SPLENGTH fields. |
| Quality rules |
Quality rules relating to this field are displayed here.
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| Reason required |
To create the student's NCTL record. |
| Part of | |
| Field length | 2 |
| Minimum occurrences | 0 |
| Maximum occurrences | 1 |
| Schema components |
Element: DEGLENGTH |
| Owner | National College for Teaching and Leadership |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Date modified | 2015-04-30 |
| Change management notes | Field coverage amended to state that this field is additionally required for EYITT routes at a postgraduate level - where Student.ITTAIM is 032 'Early Years Teacher Status' and Student.INITIATIVES is F 'EYITT Graduate Entry', G 'EYITT Graduate employment-based', or J 'EYITT School Direct'. |
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