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PhD submission date (PHDSUB)

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Key Value
Name PhD submission date
Short name PHDSUB
Part of Student course session (StudentCourseSession)
Description This field indicates the date of the first submission of the thesis for PhD Students.
Applicable to England Northern Ireland Scotland Wales
Coverage All StudentCourseSessions where Engagement.RCSTDNT = 5002, 5003, 5009, 5012, 5018, 5019 or 5022 and Qualification.QUALCAT = D0003 and Engagement.INCOMINGEXCHANGE does not exist and the student has made their first submission.

Optional for all other StudentCourseSessions where Qualification.QUALCAT= D0003 and Engagement.INCOMINGEXCHANGE does not exist and the student has made their first submission.
Notes

This field is required for doctoral research students who are funded by a Research Council and optional for other doctoral research students.


This should reflect the date of the students first thesis submission and so should not be updated for any resubmissions.



Where the student has not yet submitted their thesis, or an award is made without submission due to death or serious illness, this field should not be returned.





Quality Rules Quality rules to follow
Optional? Yes
Reason required To capture a date associated with a learning event, to assess time taken by Students to submit.
Field Length 10 (in the format YYYY-MM-DD)
References
Revision History
Coding Manual Version Element Version Notes
1.7.0 1.0.1 Updated the coverage to reflect the removal of reseach councils from FundingBody.FUNDINGBODY to Engagement.RCSTDNT. This also reflects the new valid entry codes which were updated to prevent duplication with HESA provider identifiers.

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