This field contains the higher education provider's (HEP's) own campus identifiers.

All higher education providers (HEPs).

This field will collect the HEP's own campus identifiers. HEPs should use 'A' for 'Main campus' or 'Entire HEP', and 'B' - 'Z' or one digit (1-9) for other campuses. Lower case letters are not valid.

The criteria for assessing whether a campus identifier is appropriate are as follows:

• A separate campus identifier should be used if a substantial number of staff are located on a campus at a significant distance from where the main HEP is based, such that it would be regarded as not being in the same city/town. In this respect Greater London can be treated as a single entity.
• A separate campus identifier should be used when a merger takes place, to identify any merged HEPs as separate campuses if they otherwise fit the specified criteria.
• Campus identifiers can only be used where a contract can be associated with a single site. It is recognised that because of the flexibility of employment patterns adopted by some HEPs, it will be impossible to say categorically that some staff are assigned to a particular campus. If this is the case then code 'A' should be used. A HEP that wishes separately to identify campuses may do so by using any character except for 'A'.
• In the majority of cases, the campus identifier will default to the generic value 'A' indicating the entire HEP or main campus.
• In England, HEFCE expect separate campus identifiers to be used where any part of the HEP is funded separately e.g. 0151 University of London - Institutes and activities.

Campus information is required for all separate locations based in the UK. In addition, campuses based overseas can also optionally be returned.

There may be cases where a campus identified in the Provider profile record is returned in the Staff record but not the Student record, e.g. research sites. It is important that campus identifiers used in either of these two records are identified first in the Provider profile record. Please liaise with colleagues responsible for making these returns to ensure that details of all sites are returned in the Provider profile record.

To separately identify campus, and hence geographical location.