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Graduate Outcomes Contact Details 2020/21 - International telephone

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Graduate Outcomes Contact Details 2020/21

Fields required from institutions in All fields

International telephone


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Typefield
Short nameINTTEL
Description

This field records the graduate's international telephone number.

Applicable toEngland Northern Ireland Scotland Wales
Coverage

All

Notes

This field captures an overseas personal home, work or mobile phone number (not including UK mobile numbers).

Providers should be focused on returning the best contact details that they hold for a graduate, therefore, it is recommended that a maximum of 3 contact details are returned for each of the different types of contact detail. All contact details should be current and be the personal contact details for the graduate as provided and verified by that graduate. What we also mean by ‘best’ is the supply of contact details that are most likely to elicit a response to the survey. This can be determined by recent contact with the graduate via this contact detail.

Graduates will be called on the telephone number allocated to position one before subsequent numbers are tried. Once a successful contact is made on one number, this contact detail is prioritised for any future calls. Graduates with a HOMEEUOS = 3 (Overseas) will not be called.

(HOMEEUOS is a flag used to identify graduates’ home domicile using the derived fields in the C20051 Student return and the C20054 Student Alternative return).

Field Name Code Derived from
HOMEEUOS 1 (Home) XDOMHM01 = 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5
2 (EU) XDOMHM01 = 6
3 (Overseas) XDOMHM01 = 7
4 (Not known) XDOMHM01 = 8

Telephone numbers for the following third parties are not permitted: Agents or recruitment agency, companies that support international students studying abroad, referees (e.g. for UCAS), sponsors, university lecturers / academics, international study centre, dummy telephone numbers.

Submission of shared telephone numbers is not best practice. Validation in the provider portal will identify duplicate contact details. Providers are required to review any triggering quality rules and make amendments where necessary.

Providers must return 00 (UK International direct dialling) and a valid country dialling code (www.countrycode.org) at the beginning of the telephone number.

For example Spain (from UK): 00341234567890, 00 (UK international access code) 34 (country code) plus telephone number (can include area code number if required).

Instructions on how to dial international numbers can be found here.

For graduates with a HOMEEUOS = 1 or 2 at least one telephone number (Graduate.UKTEL , Graduate.UKMOB or Graduate.INTTEL) needs to be returned to enable HESA to have the best possible opportunity to contact the graduate. It is recommended that providers return up to 3 legitimate telephone numbers as are given to them by the graduate. For graduates with HOMEEUOS =3 we would encourage you to return a UKMOB number for sending SMS texts with a link to the survey.

View more guidance on the creation of accurate personal contact details.

Quality rules
Quality rules relating to this entity are displayed here
Reason required To enable a valid method of contact between HESA and the graduate.
Part of
Field length17
Minimum occurrences0
Maximum occurrences3
Schema components
Element: INTTEL
Data type: INTTELType
OwnerHESA
Version1.0
Date modified2021-07-15
Change management notesMaximum occurrences changed from 10 to 3 and associated guidance updated.

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