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Student Alternative 2020/21 - UCAS Personal Identifier

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Student Alternative 2020/21

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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
Coverage

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

Notes

The UCAS Personal Identifier together with the UCAS Application Scheme Code 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.

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

This field is not required for students who did not enter a current Instance via UCAS.

Quality rules
Quality rules relating to this entity are displayed here.
Reason required To facilitate validation between UCAS and HESA data.
Part of
Field length10
Minimum occurrences0
Maximum occurrences1
Schema components
Element: UCASPERID
Data type: UCASPERIDType
Related fields
OwnerUCAS
Version1.1
Date modified2021-01-06
Change management notesScotland removed from applicable to as only English providers are returning to C20054.

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