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Student 2016/17 - UCAS Personal Identifier

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Student 2016/17

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UCAS Personal Identifier


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Typefield
Short nameUCASPERID
Description

This field records the 10-character code issued by UCAS.

Applicable toEngland Northern Ireland Scotland Wales
Coverage

All students who entered any of their current instances from 2007 onwards via a UCAS scheme and who have been issued a UCAS Personal Identifier

Notes

The UCAS Personal Identifier together with the UCAS application number (EntryProfile.UCASAPPID) forms the UCAS Application Identifier. The UCAS Personal Identifier is sometimes presented using hyphens between characters 3 and 4 and between characters 6 and 7. These hyphens are not to be included in this field in the Student Record.

This information will be available from UCAS via the *J transaction.

Quality rules
Quality rules to follow
Reason required

To identify students who entered a current instance via a UCAS application system and to facilitate linking between UCAS and HESA records.

Part of
Field length10
Minimum occurrences0
Maximum occurrences1
Schema components
Element: UCASPERID
Data type: UCASPERIDType
Related fields
OwnerUCAS
Version1.0

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