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Student Alternative 2020/21 - Awarding body

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Student Alternative 2020/21

Fields required from institutions in England

Awarding body


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valid entries
Typefield
Short nameAWARDBOD
Description

This field will collect the qualification awarding body of the qualification awarded in QualificationsAwarded.QUAL in the form of a UK Provider Reference Number (UKPRN) from the UK Register of Learning Providers or a generic code.

Applicable toEngland
Coverage

All Courses at registered providers except where Course.COURSEAIM ends in 99

Valid entries and labels
CodeLabel
1Pearson Edexcel
2SQA
3Other UK based awarding body
4Other non-UK based awarding body
Notes

In the majority of cases it is expected that this value will be the same UKPRN as the reporting provider. Where it is not possible to identify a UKPRN, a generic code from the valid entry list below should be used.

This field can be repeated multiple times in order to enable providers to report courses where an award is made jointly by several bodies. For example if an award is made jointly by the reporting provider and two other bodies, Course.AWARDBOD should occur three times within the course record. Although this field can occur more than once, providers should only return the number to reflect the position with regard to the course.

This field is not intended to record a body that accredits a course awarded by the provider e.g. ITT courses that lead to QTS awarded by the DfE or engineering courses that lead to Chartered Engineer status.

This field is collecting different data to that collected for Accreditation.ACCTYPE in the Unistats record about accreditation.

Quality rules
Quality rules relating to this entity are displayed here.
Reason required This field is required due to the changing nature of the higher education sector and an increasing interest in the area of joint and collaborative provision.
Part of
Field length8
Minimum occurrences0
Maximum occurrences8
Schema components
Element: AWARDBOD
Data type: AWARDBODType
OwnerHESA
Version1.2
Date modified2021-05-26
Change management notesThe coverage has been updated as the field is not required for providers not registered with the OfS.

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