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Student financial support (StudentFinancialSupport)

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Key Value
Name Student financial support
Short Name StudentFinancialSupport
Version 1.7.0
Description This entity records where a student has been in receipt of a named financial support type.
Uniquely Identified by

Each Student financial support (StudentFinancialSupport) is uniquely identified by:

Applicable to England Northern Ireland Scotland Wales
Coverage An entity is required for each instance of financial support awarded to a student
Notes


A StudentFinancialSupport entity must be returned for all awards of the financial support types listed in StudentFinancialSupport.FINSUPTYPE.


The StudentFinancialSupport entity is associated with the StudentCourseSession in which the student received the financial support.


StudentCourseSessions can be associated with more than one StudentFinancialSupport. For example, a student in receipt of Disabled Students Allowance may also be in receipt of book vouchers.


If the Student has more than one award of the same type, then only one StudentFinancialSupport entity needs to be returned.


Quality Rules Quality rules to follow
Reason Required To monitor the take-up of various types of financial support, to collect data for Office for Students to assist in understanding of the role that bursaries and other support play in student experience and on the likelihood of continuing studies, to monitor take up of Disabled Students' allowance.
Minimum Occurrences 0
Maximum Occurrences unbounded
Fields
Field Field Length Optional?
Financial support type (FINSUPTYPE) 3 No
Access and participation flag (APPSPEND) 2 Yes
Financial support amount (FINSUPAMOUNT) 6 Yes
Parent Entity Student course session (StudentCourseSession)
Revision History
Coding Manual Version Element Version Notes
1.1.0 1.0.1 Guidance updated to be clear that StudentFinancialSupport is associated with the StudentCourseSession in which the student received the financial support.

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