Student load (STULOAD)
| Key | Value | ||||||
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| Name | Student load | ||||||
| Short name | STULOAD | ||||||
| Part of | Student course session (StudentCourseSession) | ||||||
| Description | This field indicates the providers best academic judgement of the Full Time Equivalence (FTE) of the student for this StudentCourseSession. | ||||||
| Applicable to | Scotland | ||||||
| Coverage | All StudentCourseSessions at providers in Scotland where StudentCourseSession.SCSENDDATE exists. | ||||||
| Notes | This field records the FTE that the student completed during the StudentCourseSession. Values can be recorded to one decimal place. This cannot be exact in all cases and a strict pro-rata model is not expected. The aim is to give a better approximation than the use of arbitrary conversion factors. |
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| Quality Rules | Quality rules to follow | ||||||
| Optional? | Yes | ||||||
| Reason required | To monitor intensity of study and to allow analysis by FTE rather than by headcount. Particularly significant for analysing load and allocations of funding for part-time students. | ||||||
| Field Length | 4 | ||||||
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