key information set 2012/13 · table of contents (by entity) accreditation.....5

Key Information Set 2012/13

Table of Contents (by entity)

Accreditation......................................................................................................................................................................................5

Accreditationdependency..............................................................................................................................................................6

AccreditationdependencyURL.....................................................................................................................................................7

Accreditation dependency URL - Welsh........................................................................................................................................8

Accreditationtype...........................................................................................................................................................................9

AccreditationURL.........................................................................................................................................................................11

Accreditingbodycode....................................................................................................................................................................12

CourseStage.......................................................................................................................................................................................16

Assessmentmethod indicator.........................................................................................................................................................17

Courseworkassessmentpercentage................................................................................................................................................18

Independent studypercentage........................................................................................................................................................19

Learning and teaching method indicator........................................................................................................................................20

Learning, teaching and assessment stage.......................................................................................................................................21

Placement studypercentage............................................................................................................................................................22

Practical exam assessment percentage...........................................................................................................................................23

Scheduled learning and teaching study percentage........................................................................................................................24

Written exam assessment percentage.............................................................................................................................................25

HESACourse......................................................................................................................................................................................26

HESAcourse identifier...................................................................................................................................................................27

Joint schoolUKPRN......................................................................................................................................................................28

Reporting year of HESA course.....................................................................................................................................................29

ILRAims............................................................................................................................................................................................30

LAD/LARA qualification aim course code....................................................................................................................................31

Year of ILR course.........................................................................................................................................................................32

Institution...........................................................................................................................................................................................33

AccommodationcostURL.............................................................................................................................................................34

Accommodation cost URL - Welsh................................................................................................................................................35

Institutionbednumber....................................................................................................................................................................36

Institution beds - lower quartile cost..............................................................................................................................................37

Institution beds - upper quartile cost..............................................................................................................................................38

National Scholarship Programme participation..............................................................................................................................39

Private beds - lower quartile cost...................................................................................................................................................40

Private beds - upper quartile cost...................................................................................................................................................41

Record type indicator......................................................................................................................................................................42

UK Provider Reference Number....................................................................................................................................................43

KISCourse..........................................................................................................................................................................................44

ApplicationUKPRN.......................................................................................................................................................................46

AssessmentmethodsURL..............................................................................................................................................................47

Assessment methods URL - Welsh................................................................................................................................................48

CoursepageURL...........................................................................................................................................................................49

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Course page URL - Welsh..............................................................................................................................................................50

Coursetitle......................................................................................................................................................................................51

Course title - Welsh........................................................................................................................................................................53

Distance learningonly....................................................................................................................................................................55

EmploymentdetailsURL...............................................................................................................................................................56

Employment details URL - Welsh..................................................................................................................................................57

Feewaiveravailability....................................................................................................................................................................59

Feesconfirmation...........................................................................................................................................................................60

KISCourse identifier......................................................................................................................................................................61

KISType.........................................................................................................................................................................................63

LDCScode.....................................................................................................................................................................................64

Learning and teaching methods URL.............................................................................................................................................66

Learning and teaching methods URL - Welsh...............................................................................................................................67

Levelof award................................................................................................................................................................................68

Maximum fee for England domicile...............................................................................................................................................69

Maximum fee for Northern Ireland domicile.................................................................................................................................71

Maximum fee for Scotland domicile..............................................................................................................................................72

Maximum fee for Wales domicile..................................................................................................................................................74

Means testedsupport......................................................................................................................................................................76

Non-creditassessment....................................................................................................................................................................77

Non-means-testedsupport..............................................................................................................................................................78

Part-timeonly.................................................................................................................................................................................79

Proportion available in Welsh........................................................................................................................................................80

RelatedKIS.....................................................................................................................................................................................81

Subject of course - full JACS.........................................................................................................................................................82

Subject of course - JACS level 2....................................................................................................................................................104

SupportdetailsURL.......................................................................................................................................................................106

Support details URL - Welsh..........................................................................................................................................................107

Teacher trainingcourse..................................................................................................................................................................108

The UCAS Course code for the course..........................................................................................................................................110

The UCAS Programme code for the course...................................................................................................................................111

VariableFee....................................................................................................................................................................................112


Table of Contents (alphabetical)

Fields that are displayed here are sorted alphabetically by field description for ease of searching. Please note that C12061.xsd defines the orderthat entities and fields must be included within the xml file, which is different to this display order.

AccommodationcostURL................................................................................................................................................................34

Accommodation cost URL - Welsh...................................................................................................................................................35

Accreditation......................................................................................................................................................................................5

Accreditationdependency..................................................................................................................................................................6

AccreditationdependencyURL.........................................................................................................................................................7

Accreditation dependency URL - Welsh...........................................................................................................................................8

Accreditationtype..............................................................................................................................................................................9

AccreditationURL.............................................................................................................................................................................11

Accreditingbodycode.......................................................................................................................................................................12

ApplicationUKPRN..........................................................................................................................................................................46

Assessmentmethod indicator............................................................................................................................................................17

AssessmentmethodsURL.................................................................................................................................................................47

Assessment methods URL - Welsh....................................................................................................................................................48

CoursepageURL...............................................................................................................................................................................49

Course page URL - Welsh.................................................................................................................................................................50

Coursetitle.........................................................................................................................................................................................51

Course title - Welsh............................................................................................................................................................................53

CourseStage.......................................................................................................................................................................................16

Courseworkassessmentpercentage...................................................................................................................................................18

Distance learningonly.......................................................................................................................................................................55

EmploymentdetailsURL..................................................................................................................................................................56

Employment details URL - Welsh.....................................................................................................................................................57

Feewaiveravailability.......................................................................................................................................................................59

Feesconfirmation...............................................................................................................................................................................60

HESAcourse identifier......................................................................................................................................................................27

HESACourse......................................................................................................................................................................................26

ILRAims............................................................................................................................................................................................30

Independent studypercentage............................................................................................................................................................19

Institution...........................................................................................................................................................................................33

Institutionbednumber.......................................................................................................................................................................36

Institution beds - lower quartile cost..................................................................................................................................................37

Institution beds - upper quartile cost..................................................................................................................................................38

Joint schoolUKPRN..........................................................................................................................................................................28

KISCourse identifier.........................................................................................................................................................................61

KISType............................................................................................................................................................................................63

KISCourse..........................................................................................................................................................................................44

LAD/LARA qualification aim course code.......................................................................................................................................31

LDCScode.........................................................................................................................................................................................64

Learning and teaching method indicator............................................................................................................................................20


Learning and teaching methods URL................................................................................................................................................66

Learning and teaching methods URL - Welsh...................................................................................................................................67

Learning, teaching and assessment stage...........................................................................................................................................21

Levelof award...................................................................................................................................................................................68

Maximum fee for England domicile..................................................................................................................................................69

Maximum fee for Northern Ireland domicile.....................................................................................................................................71

Maximum fee for Scotland domicile.................................................................................................................................................72

Maximum fee for Wales domicile.....................................................................................................................................................74

Means testedsupport..........................................................................................................................................................................76

National Scholarship Programme participation.................................................................................................................................39

Non-creditassessment........................................................................................................................................................................77

Non-means-testedsupport..................................................................................................................................................................78

Part-timeonly.....................................................................................................................................................................................79

Placement studypercentage...............................................................................................................................................................22

Practical exam assessment percentage...............................................................................................................................................23

Private beds - lower quartile cost.......................................................................................................................................................40

Private beds - upper quartile cost.......................................................................................................................................................41

Proportion available in Welsh............................................................................................................................................................80

Record type indicator.........................................................................................................................................................................42

RelatedKIS........................................................................................................................................................................................81

Reporting year of HESA course........................................................................................................................................................29

Scheduled learning and teaching study percentage............................................................................................................................24

Subject of course - full JACS.............................................................................................................................................................82

Subject of course - JACS level 2.......................................................................................................................................................104

SupportdetailsURL..........................................................................................................................................................................106

Support details URL - Welsh.............................................................................................................................................................107

Teacher trainingcourse......................................................................................................................................................................108

The UCAS Course code for the course..............................................................................................................................................110

The UCAS Programme code for the course......................................................................................................................................111

UK Provider Reference Number........................................................................................................................................................43

VariableFee.......................................................................................................................................................................................112

Written exam assessment percentage.................................................................................................................................................25

Year of ILR course.............................................................................................................................................................................32


AccreditationType entity

Short Name Accreditation

Description This entity records information about course accreditation

Applicable to England Northern Ireland Scotland Wales

Coverage All KISCourses where applicable and KISCourse.KISTYPE = 1

Notes This entity records the professional accreditations for the course

Where the course is accredited in a way that gives the student something specific backthen a short textual description should be given in Accreditation.ACCTYPE. In all casesthe accrediting body should be returned in Accreditation.ACCBODYID .

This entity must not be returned where Course.KISTYPE = 2 or 3.

This entity must not be reported for fields that do not have professional accreditation.

The XML structure allows for up to 10 accreditations to be recorded for a single KIS.

If accreditation is at the institution rather than course level, provided accreditationapplies to all courses offered by the institution it should be recorded on every KIS.

Business rules 1 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 2 and 3 courses cannot containKISCourse.Accreditation entities

Reason Required This entity exists to hold fields that describe course accreditation

Part Of KISCourse

Minimum Occurrences 0

Maximum Occurrences 10

Has PartsAccreditation type (ACCTYPE)Accrediting body code (ACCBODYID)Accreditation URL (ACCURL)Accreditation dependency (ACCDEPEND)Accreditation dependency URL (ACCDEPENDURL)Accreditation dependency URL - Welsh (ACCDEPENDURLW)

Owner HESA

Version 1.1

Date modified 2012-03-29

Change managementnotes

Entity updated with guidance on when the accrediting bodies and types should bereturned.


Accreditation dependencyType field

Short Name ACCDEPEND

Description This field describes whether accreditation is dependent on choice


Coverage Where course has professional accreditation

Valid Entries andLabels

1 Accreditation is dependent on student choice0 Accreditation is not dependent on student choice

Notes This field records whether the award of the accreditation is in some way dependent onthe choices made by the student. A value of 1 should be used wherever student choicecan affect whether they gain the accreditation listed. A value of 1 should not be usedsolely because the gaining of accreditation requires the student to pass an assessmentif all students will undergo the assessment as part of the course.

Reason Required KIS data item

Part Of Accreditation

Field Length 1



Schema Components Element: ACCDEPENDData type: ACCDEPENDCodeContentType

Year This Field RelatesTo 2013/14

Owner HESA

Version 1.0


Accreditation dependency URLType field

Short Name ACCDEPENDURL

Description This field records the URL describing whether accreditation is dependant on choice


Coverage Where Accreditation.ACCDEPEND = 1

Notes This field should contain a URL that explains how the accreditation depends on moduleor other course choices made by the student.

This field must not exist if Accreditation.ACCDEPEND = 0.

Valid URL

This field must contain a valid website URL. Institutions must ensure that URLs areactive and link to the correct page. Validation checks will only check for basic structure,to ensure that the URL starts with either http or https and contains only Latinnon-accented characters.

Business rules 1 Error Accreditation.ACCDEPENDURL must exist whereAccreditation.ACCDEPEND = 1

2 Error Accreditation.ACCDEPENDURL must not exist whereAccreditation.ACCDEPEND = 0



Field Length 255



Schema Components Element: ACCDEPENDURLData type: URLType

Year This Field RelatesTo This URL must be active for the duration of 2012/13

Owner HESA

Version 1.1



Data type 'URLType' documentation has been updated to clarify the use of '%' and '&'special characters within the URL.


Accreditation dependency URL - WelshType field

Short Name ACCDEPENDURLW

Description This field records the URL describing whether accreditation is dependent on choice -Welsh

Applicable to Wales

Coverage Institutions in Wales where Accreditation.ACCDEPEND = 1 where applicable

Notes This field must contain a valid website URL with the same details asAccreditation.ACCDEPENDURL but in Welsh. This field is only required whereinstitutional web-sites use different URLs for Welsh and English language pages.

If applicable, this field must not exist if Accreditation.ACCDEPEND = 0.

This field must not exist for institutions in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Valid URL


Business rules 1 Error Accreditation.ACCDEPENDURLW must not exist whereAccreditation.ACCDEPEND = 0

2 Error Accreditation.ACCDEPENDURLW must not exist where institution is not inWales



Field Length 255



Schema Components Element: ACCDEPENDURLWData type: URLType


Owner HESA

Version 1.1





Accreditation typeType field

Short Name ACCTYPE

Description This field records the type of accreditation



Notes This should contain a short textual description of the type of accreditation that arises asa result of the course for example Chartered, Membership, Fellowship. The wordingused should be consistent with that used by the accrediting body on its website. Thewording provided will be inserted into the following sentence at the place marked byYYYY "This course is recognised by XXXX for the purposes of YYYY" where XXXX isthe text derived from Accreditation.ACCBODYID.

If the course is accredited but students do not receive anything specific as aconsequence then this field should not be returned and the text will instead read 'Thiscourse is accredited by XXXX' where XXXX is the text derived fromAccreditation.ACCBODYID.

Valid characters

The valid characterset available for this field follows the Data Standards in the HESAstudent record.

• The general policy is to support all Latin-based characters for names, addresses andgeneral text fields, but not non-Latin characters.

• All Unicode code charts for Latin characters are supported. These are Basic Latin(excluding the C0 control characters), Latin-1 (excluding the C1 control characters),Latin Extended A, Latin Extended B and Latin Extended Additional. This setcorresponds to Unicode code points U+0020 to U+007F, U+00A0 to U+024F andU+IE00 to U+IEFF.

• Schemas are built in such a way that an individual project can further restrict the setif required.

Please note that this field excludes non-breaking spaces, tabs, carriage return,line feed, form feed and vertical tab characters, as these will affect formatting.

The character set chosen will support Welsh and Gaelic languages as well as allEuropean and most other languages using a Latin-based character set.

The Unicode charts that list each of the characters in this range can be found on theUnicode web site. The specific sets that are defined here are shown in the followingPDF documents:

• Basic Latin• Latin-1• Latin Extended A• Latin Extended B• Latin Extended Additional

Files must be encoded with UTF-8 and schema validation will be in place to ensure this.Institutions must specify the encoding used in their XML files in the first line of the file


(i.e. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>) and to ensure that their files areactually saved with that encoding. If XML files are edited with some text editors and theencoding is not specified or does not match the actual file encoding, there may beproblems when submitting these files for validation.



Field Length 80



Schema Components Element: ACCTYPEData type: ACCTYPEType


Owner HESA

Version 1.2



Data type maximum length corrected to 80 to match the field length. MinimumOccurrences change to '0' to match the guidance.


Accreditation URLType field

Short Name ACCURL

Description This field records the URL explaining accreditation



Notes This field must contain a link to an appropriate page on the accrediting bodies web-sitethat explains what the specific type of accreditation achieved as part of the coursemeans.

Valid URL




Field Length 255



Schema Components Element: ACCURLData type: URLType


Owner HESA

Version 1.1





Accrediting body codeType field

Short Name ACCBODYID

Description This field records the accrediting body code




001 Architects Registration Board (ARB)002 Archives and Records Association (ARA)003 Association for Nutrition004 Association for Project Management (APM)005 Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT)006 Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)007 Association of International Accountants (AIA)008 Association of MBAs (AMBA)009 Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)010 Bar Council011 BCS the Chartered Institute for IT012 Board of Quantity Surveyors Malaysia (BQSM)013 British Acupuncture Accreditation Board (BAAB)014 British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP)015 British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT)016 British Association of Lecturers in English for Academic Purposes

(BALEAP)017 British Association of Occupational Therapists and College of Occupational

Therapists (BAOT)018 British Association of Sport and Exercise Science (BASES)019 British Dyslexia Association (BDA)020 British Psychological Society (BPS)021 Broadcast Journalism Training Council (BJTC)022 Care Council for Wales023 Chartered Accountants Ireland024 Chartered Financial Analyst Institute (CFA)025 Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment (CISI)026 Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb)027 Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists (CIAT)028 Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB)029 Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH)030 Chartered Institute of Highways & Transportation (CIHT)031 Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH)032 Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP)033 Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT)034 Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA)035 Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM)036 Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)037 Chartered Institute of Public Finance & Accountancy (CIPFA)038 Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR)039 Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS)040 Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE)041 Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM)042 Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM)043 Chartered Insurance Institute (CII)044 Chartered Management Institute (CMI)045 Chartered Society of Designers (CSD)046 Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP)047 College of Operating Department Practitioners (CODP)048 Consortium for the Accreditation of Sonographic Education (CASE)


049 Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence (CHRE)050 Education and Training Directorate (ETI)051 Energy Institute (EI)052 Engineering Council053 Estyn054 European Association of Establishments for Veterinary Education (EAEVE)055 European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS)056 Forensic Science Society (FSSoc)057 General Chiropractic Council (GCC)058 General Dental Council (GDC)059 General Medical Council (GMC)060 General Optical Council (GOC)061 General Osteopathic Council (GOsC)062 General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)065 General Teaching Council for Northern Ireland (GTCNI)066 General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS)067 General Teaching Council for Wales (GTCW)068 Geological Society069 Health Care Professions Council (HCPC)070 Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education (HMIe)071 Higher Education Academy (HEA)072 Institute and Faculty of Actuaries073 Institute of Biomedical Science (IBMS)074 Institute of Careers Guidance075 Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW)076 Institute of Chartered Accountants in Scotland (ICAS)077 Institute of Chartered Foresters (ICF)078 Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ICSA)079 Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA)080 Institute of Food Science and Technology (IFST)081 Institute of Highway Engineers (IHE)082 Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC)083 Institute of Hospitality084 Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology (IMarEST)085 Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3)086 Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA)087 Institute of Measurement and Control (InstMC)088 Institute of Physics & Engineering in Medicine (IPEM)089 Institute of Physics (IOP)090 Institute of Water (IWater)091 Institution of Agricultural Engineers (IAgrE)092 Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE)093 Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE)094 Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)095 Institution of Engineering Designers (IED)096 Institution of Environmental Sciences (IES)097 Institution of Fire Engineers (IFE)098 Institution of Gas Engineers and Managers (IGEM)099 Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE)100 Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE)101 Joint Audio Media Education Services (JAMES)102 Landscape Institute (LI)103 Law Society of England and Wales104 Law Society of Northern Ireland (LSNI)105 Law Society of Scotland106 Market Research Society (MRS)107 Drama UK108 National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ)109 National Youth Agency (NYA)110 Northern Ireland Social Care Council (NISCC)111 Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)112 Nutrition Society (NS)113 Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted)114 Periodicals Training Council (PTC)


115 Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland (PSNI)116 Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS)117 Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG)118 Royal College of Psychiatrists (RC PSYCH)119 Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT)120 Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS)121 Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)122 Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)123 Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA)124 Royal Meteorological Society (RMetS)125 Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB)126 Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)127 Royal Statistical Society (RSS)128 Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI)129 Science Council130 Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC)131 Skillset132 Society and College of Radiographers (SCoR)133 Society for the Environment (SocEnv)134 Society of Biology135 Society of Operations Engineers (SOE)136 Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA)137 Standards Council for Scotland138 Standards Verification UK (SVUK)139 the Teaching Agency (TA)140 American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA)141 Association of Building Engineers142 British Association of Sport Rehabilitators and Trainers (BASRaT)143 British Institute of Professional Photography (BIPP)144 Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors (CICES)145 European Herbal and Traditional Practitioners Association (EHTPA)146 Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers (ICS)147 Institute of Chemistry in Ireland148 Institute of Financial Accountants (IFA)149 Institute of Travel and Tourism (ITT)150 Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA)151 Merchant Navy Training Board (MNTB)152 Royal Meteorological Society (RMetS)153 SkillsActive154 The Church of Scotland155 The College of Optometrists (Copt)156 The Institute of Brewing and Distilling (IBD)157 The Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors (IEHF)158 The Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH)159 The Institute of Translation and Interpreting (ITI)160 The Society of Fire Protection Engineers161 The Society of Sports Therapists162 The Trading Standards Institute

Notes If accreditation is at the institution rather than course level, provided accreditationapplies to all courses offered by the institution it should be recorded on every KIS.

As of the 1st April 2012 the functions of the General Teaching council for England(GTCE) was passed to the Teaching Agency (TA) (code 139). The valid entry '064General Teaching Council for England (GTCE)' is no longer valid and has beenremoved.

As of 1st August 2012 the General Social Care Council (GSCC) (code 063) registrationwill transfer to the Health Professions Council (HPC) (code 069). The valid entry '063General Social Care Council (GSCC)' is no longer valid and has been removed.


To reflect their new remit, the 'Health Professions Council (HPC)' name has changed tothe 'Health Care Professions Council (HCPC)'.



Field Length 3



Schema Components Element: ACCBODYIDData type: ACCBODYIDCodeContentType


Owner HESA

Version 1.2



107 valid entry label changed from 'The National Council for Drama Training (NCDT)' to'Drama UK' following its merger with the Conference of Drama Schools. Valid entry 064'General Teaching council for England (GTCE)' has been removed as its functiontransferred to 139 'the Teaching Agency (TA)' on 1st April 2012. Guidance has beenadded to highlight this change. 069 valid entry label 'Health Professions Council (HPC)'changed to 'Health Care Professions Council (HCPC)' to reflect its 1st August 2012name change. Valid entry 063 'General Social Care Council (GSCC)' has been removedas their function will transfer to 069 the 'Health Care Professions Council (HCPC)' on1st August 2012. Guidance has been added to highlight this change.


CourseStageType entity

Short Name CourseStage

Description This entity records details of the learning and teaching and assessment methods for thecourse stage


Coverage Where KISCourse.KISTYPE = 1, 3

Notes This entity contains details of the learning and teaching methods and assessmentmethods for each stage of the course. Up to seven stages can be returned. Onlyaccelerated courses where study is at a rate of more than 1 FTE a year will have anoccurrence of one.

This entity must not be returned where KISCourse.KISTYPE = 2.

Business rules 1 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 2 courses cannot contain KISCourse.CourseStageentities

2 Error CourseStage.WRITTEN, CourseStage.COURSEWORK andCourseStage.PRACTICAL fields must sum to 100 or 0 within anyKISCourse.CourseStage entity

3 Error CourseStage.SCHEDULED, CourseStage.INDEPENDENT andCourseStage.PLACEMENT fields must sum to 100 within anyKISCourse.CourseStage entity

4 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 1 or KISCourse.KISTYPE 3 courses must containKISCourse.CourseStage entities

Reason Required To identify the details of the course

Part Of KISCourse



Has PartsWritten exam assessment percentage (WRITTEN)Practical exam assessment percentage (PRACTICAL)Coursework assessment percentage (COURSEWORK)Assessment method indicator (ASSACT)Scheduled learning and teaching study percentage (SCHEDULED)Independent study percentage (INDEPENDENT)Placement study percentage (PLACEMENT)Learning and teaching method indicator (LTACT)Learning, teaching and assessment stage (STAGE)

Owner HESA

Version 1.1



Business rule 4 added stating that a KISCourse.KISTYPE 1 or KISCourse.KISTYPE 3must contain a KISCourse.CourseStage entity.


Assessment method indicatorType field

Short Name ASSACT

Description This field records an indicator of whether assessment methods are actual or estimated


Coverage All CourseStages


A Based on actual student choicesE Based on institutional estimates

Notes This field indicates whether the assessment methods are based on actual studentchoices or the institution's expectations of the modules that students will choose.


Part Of CourseStage

Field Length 1



Schema Components Element: ASSACTData type: ASSACTCodeContentType

Owner HESA

Version 1.0


Coursework assessment percentageType field

Short Name COURSEWORK

Description This field records the percentage of assessment by coursework



Notes This field records the percentage of the assessment for the stage that is throughcoursework. See separate document for details on classifying assessment methods

This field can contain a value in the range 0 - 100.

The sum of this field, CourseStage.WRITTEN and CourseStage.PRACTICAL mustequal 0 (in the case where there is no summative assessment in the year) or 100.Definitions of assessment methods are provided in the Calculations of assessment andlearning and teaching methods guidance.

The percentage of assessment undertaken in each method should be based on thenotional credit points associated with the type of assessment.


Part Of CourseStage

Field Length 3



Schema Components Element: COURSEWORKData type: IntPrcntType

Year This Field RelatesTo 2011/12 (if actual data) or 2013/14 (if institutional estimates)

Owner HESA

Version 1.1



Additional guidance added stating that the sum of CourseStage.COURSEWORK,CourseStage.PRACTICAL and CourseStage.WRITTEN can equal 0 (in the case wherethere is no summative assessment in the year). Guidance added stating that thepercentage of assessment undertaken in each method should be based on the notionalcredit points associated with the type of assessment.


Independent study percentageType field

Short Name INDEPENDENT

Description This field records the percentage of study time in guided independent study



Notes This field should contain the percentage of the student's time for the stage that is spentin guided independent study. See separate document for details on classifying learningand teaching methods.


The sum of this field, CourseStage.SCHEDULED and CourseStage.PLACEMENT mustequal 100. Definitions of learning and teaching classifications are provided in theCalculations of assessment and learning and teaching methods guidance.


Part Of CourseStage

Field Length 3



Schema Components Element: INDEPENDENTData type: IntPrcntType

Year This Field RelatesTo 2011/12 (if actual data) or 2013/14 (if institutional estimates - new course)

Owner HESA

Version 1.1



Learning and teaching method indicatorType field

Short Name LTACT

Description This field records an indicator of whether learning and teaching methods are actual orestimated




A Based on actual student choicesE Based on institutional estimates

Notes This field indicates whether the learning and teaching methods are based on actualstudent choices or the institution's estimates of the modules that students will choose.


Part Of CourseStage

Field Length 1



Schema Components Element: LTACTData type: LTACTCodeContentType


Owner HESA

Version 1.0


Learning, teaching and assessment stageType field

Short Name STAGE

Description This field records the course stage that learning and teaching and assessment methodsrelate to



Notes This records the course stage that the learning and teaching methods and assessmentmethods relate to. For full-time courses this will usually be equivalent to a course year(Student.YEARPRG in the student record). This can be considered in terms of creditcompleted. For part-time students this should relate to the full-time pattern of study,therefore a part-time degree would normally have stages 1 to 3.

This field must contain a number between 1 and 7.

Business rules 1 Error CourseStage.STAGE fields must be consecutive within aKISCourse.CourseStage entity

2 Error CourseStage.STAGE fields must be unique within aKISCourse.CourseStage entity


Part Of CourseStage

Field Length 1



Schema Components Element: STAGEData type: STAGEType

Owner HESA

Version 1.0


Placement study percentageType field

Short Name PLACEMENT

Description This field records the percentage of study time on placements



Notes This field should contain the percentage of the student's time for the CourseStage thatis spent on placements or in work experience. This would also include language andother years abroad. See separate document for details on classifying learning andteaching methods.


The sum of this field, CourseStage.INDEPENDENT and CourseStage.SCHEDULEDmust equal 100. Definitions of learning and teaching classifications are provided in theCalculations of assessment and learning and teaching methods guidance.

Teaching placements in medical and nursing courses should be treated as placements.

Where the total number of hours on placement exceeds 10 hours per credit, the totalnumber of hours should be capped at 10 hours per credit.


Part Of CourseStage

Field Length 3



Schema Components Element: PLACEMENTData type: IntPrcntType


Owner HESA

Version 1.1



Practical exam assessment percentageType field

Short Name PRACTICAL

Description This field records the percentage of assessment by practical exams



Notes This field should contain the percentage of the assessment for the CourseStage that isthrough practical exams. See separate document for details on classifying assessmentmethods.


The sum of this field, CourseStage.COURSEWORK and CourseStage.WRITTEN mustequal 0 (in the case where there is no summative assessment in the year) or 100.Definitions of assessment methods are provided in the Calculations of assessment andlearning and teaching methods guidance.



Part Of CourseStage

Field Length 3



Schema Components Element: PRACTICALData type: IntPrcntType


Owner HESA

Version 1.1





Scheduled learning and teaching study percentageType field

Short Name SCHEDULED

Description This field records the percentage of study time in scheduled learning and teachingactivities



Notes This field should contain the percentage of the student's time for the CourseStage thatis spent in scheduled learning and teaching activities. See the Calculations ofassessment and learning and teaching methods documentation for details on classifyinglearning and teaching methods.


The sum of this field, CourseStage.INDEPENDENT and CourseStage.PLACEMENTmust equal 100. Definitions of learning and teaching classifications are provided in theCalculations of assessment and learning and teaching methods documentation.


Part Of CourseStage

Field Length 3



Schema Components Element: SCHEDULEDData type: IntPrcntType


Owner HESA

Version 1.2



Document now specified in Notes for details on classifying learning and teachingmethods.


Written exam assessment percentageType field

Short Name WRITTEN

Description Percentage of assessment by written exams



Notes This field should contain the percentage of the assessment for the stage that is throughwritten exams. See separate document for details on classifying assessment methods.


The sum of this field, CourseStage.COURSEWORK and CourseStage.PRACTICALmust equal 0 (in the case where there is no summative assessment in the year) or 100.Definitions of assessment methods are provided in the Calculations of assessment andlearning and teaching methods guidance.



Part Of CourseStage

Field Length 3



Schema Components Element: WRITTENData type: IntPrcntType


Owner HESA

Version 1.1





HESACourseType entity

Short Name HESACourse

Description This entity records details for HESA course(s) which will be used to link data to KISrecords


Coverage All KISCourses where institution is an HEI, and both KISCourse andHESACourse.HESACOURSEID existed in 2009/10 and/or 2010/11, andKISCourse.KISTYPE = 1

Notes This entity records the HESA course(s) that the KIS record relates to. KIS links to HESAcourse information that is one or two years in arrears. For 2012/13, HESA courseidentifiers for 2009/10 and 2010/11 should be provided.

Where a course links to more than one course on the HESA record all relevantCourse.COURSEIDs should be given. This multiple linking should only occur where forsystems or technical reasons the same KISCourse links to multiple courses on theHESA record, and should not be used to group cognate courses.

The same HESA course identifiers may be reported for different KIS courses where theinstitution admits to, or markets, the same course under different names.

This field must not be returned where KISCourse.KISTYPE = 2 or 3.

This entity can only be returned if the institution is an HEI and was returning data toHESA in 2009/10 and/or 2010/11.

Business rules 1 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 2 and 3 courses cannot containKISCourse.HESACourse entities

2 Error KISCourse.HESACourse entities can only be returned by an HEI

Reason Required

Part Of KISCourse



Has PartsHESA course identifier (HESACOURSEID)Reporting year of HESA course (HESAYEAR)Joint school UKPRN (JOINTUKPRN)

Owner HESA

Version 1.1



Business rule 2 added to ensure only higher education institutions return this entity.


HESA course identifierType field

Short Name HESACOURSEID

Description This fields records a HESA course ID to be linked to the KISCourse


Coverage All HESACourses

Notes This field must contain a valid Course.COURSEID from the Institution's HESA Studentrecord for the HESACourse.HESAYEAR.

If HESACourse.HESAYEAR = Both the same HESACourse.HESACOURSEID mustexist in both the 2009/10 and 2010/11 HESA Student record.

Validation will check that the HESACourse.HESACOURSEID recorded in this fieldexists in the C09051 and C10051 Student record.

The same HESACourseID can be linked to multiple KIS courses and validation will notprevent this.

HESACourse.HESACOURSEID and ILRAims.ILRAIMID should only be used to link tocourses that are the embodiment, on the HESA/ILR records, of the course for which aKIS is being produced. It would be misleading to applicants if other courses wereincluded, as this could lead to a belief that they were viewing course level data, whenthey were looking at data relating to a group of courses.

Business rules 1 Error HESACourse.HESACOURSEID must be unique within a KIS course

Reason Required To facilitate linking to DLHE and NSS

Part Of HESACourse

Field Length 30



Schema Components Element: HESACOURSEIDData type: HESACOURSEIDType

Year This Field RelatesTo 2009/10 & 2010/11

Owner HESA

Version 1.1



Notes text added, explaining that this field should only be used to link to courses thatare the embodiment, on the HESA/ILR records, of the course for which a KIS is beingproduced.


Joint school UKPRNType field

Short Name JOINTUKPRN

Description This field records the UK Provider Reference Number (UKPRN) to identify the linkedcourses where the KISCourse is a joint medical school


Coverage All HESACourses where jointly admitted to


10007792 The University of Exeter10007801 The University of Plymouth10007146 The University of Greenwich10007150 The University of Kent10007149 The University of Hull10007167 The University of York10000886 The University of Brighton10007806 The University of Sussex

Notes This field records the UK Provider Reference Number (UKPRN) which is the uniqueidentifier allocated to institutions by the UK Register of Learning Providers (UKRLP).

There is further information in the document Guidance for joint medical andpharmaceutical schools.

Reason Required To identify the source of the record

Part Of HESACourse

Field Length 8



Schema Components Element: JOINTUKPRNData type: JOINTUKPRNCodeContentType


Owner HESA

Version 1.0


Reporting year of HESA courseType field

Short Name HESAYEAR

Description This field records the year the HESACourse.HESACOURSEID relates to


Coverage All HESACourses


2009 The course identifier is applicable to 2009/10 only2010 The course identifier is applicable to 2010/11 onlyBOTH The course identifier is applicable to both years

Notes This field indicates which year HESACourse.HESACOURSEID relates to.

Within a KISCourse a HESACourse entity with HESAYEAR set as 2009 cannot existunless there is another HESACourse entity belonging to the KISCourse that hasHESAYEAR set as 2010 or BOTH.

Within a KISCourse the same HESACourse.HESACOURSEID cannot exist more thanonce.

Reason Required Linking to HESA

Part Of HESACourse

Field Length 4



Schema Components Element: HESAYEARData type: HESAYEARCodeContentType


Owner HESA

Version 1.1



Additional guidance added to Notes stating that a HESACourse entity with aHESAYEAR set as 2009 cannot exist unless there is also a HESACourse entityassociated with the KISCourse that has HESAYEAR set as 2010 or BOTH. Guidanceadded explaining that within a KISCourse the same HESACourse.HESACOURSEIDcannot exist more than once.


ILRAimsType entity

Short Name ILRAims

Description This entity records details for ILR qualification aim reference code(s) which will be usedto link data to KIS records


Coverage All KISCourses where institution is an FEC and both KISCourse and ILR record existedin 2009/10 and/or 2010/11, and KISCourse.KISTYPE = 1

Notes This entity collects the ILR qualification aim reference(s) that the KIS course relates to.KIS links to ILR course information one or two years in arrears. For example, for the KISpublished in September 2012 the Individualised Learner Record (ILR) qualification aimreferences for the 2009/10 and 2010/11 reporting years should be given.

Where a course links to more than one qualification aim on the ILR all qualification aimreferences should be given. The same qualification aim references may be reported fordifferent KIS courses where the institution admits to, or markets, the same course underdifferent names.


This entity can only be returned if the institution is a further education college and wasreturning data to the Information Authority ILR in 2009/10 and/or 2010/11.

Business rules 1 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 2 and 3 courses cannot contain KISCourse.ILRAimsentities

2 Error Kiscourse.ILRAims entities can only be returned by an FEC

Reason Required To facilitate linking to ILR

Part Of KISCourse



Has PartsLAD/LARA qualification aim course code (ILRAIMID)Year of ILR course (ILRYEAR)

Owner HESA

Version 1.1



Business rule 2 added to ensure only further education colleges return this entity.


LAD/LARA qualification aim course codeType field

Short Name ILRAIMID

Description The LAD (Learning Aim Database)/LARA (Learning Aim Reference Application)qualification aim reference code for the course


Coverage All ILRAim entities

Notes This should contain the qualification aim reference code used in the year identified byILRAims.ILRYEAR.

This code can be obtained from The Data Service (LEARNING_AIM_REF code in theLEARNING_AIM.CSV file).

HESACourse.HESACOURSEID and ILRAims.ILRAIMID should only be used to link tocourses that are the embodiment, on the HESA/ILR records, of the course for which aKIS is being produced. It would be misleading to applicants if other courses wereincluded, as this could lead to a belief that they were viewing course level data, whenthey were looking at data relating to a group of courses.

If ILRAims.ILRYEAR = Both then the same ILRAIMID must exist in both the 2009/10and 2010/11 ILR.

Business rules 1 Error ILRAims.ILRAIMID must be unique within a KIS course

Reason Required Linking to the ILR/LLWR

Part Of ILRAims

Field Length 8



Schema Components Element: ILRAIMIDData type: ILRAIMIDType


Owner HESA

Version 1.1



Notes text added, explaining that this field should only be used to link to courses thatare the embodiment, on the HESA/ILR records, of the course for which a KIS is beingproduced.


Year of ILR courseType field

Short Name ILRYEAR

Description This field records the year the ILRAims.ILRAIMID relates to


Coverage All ILRAims


2009 The course identifier is applicable to 2009/10 only2010 The course identifier is applicable to 2010/11 onlyBOTH The course identifier is applicable to both years

Notes This field indicates which year the ILR qualification reference code relates to.

The ILRAims entity for a ILRAim can contain ILRYEARs with 'BOTH', or '2010', or both'2009' and '2010', but not '2009' alone.

Reason Required To facilitate linking to the ILR/LLWR

Part Of ILRAims

Field Length 4



Schema Components Element: ILRYEARData type: ILRYEARCodeContentType


Owner HESA

Version 1.0


InstitutionType entity

Short Name Institution

Description This describes the reporting institution


Coverage Every submission must include a single Institution element

Notes

Reason Required The institution entity contains the KIS elements and provides a home for anyinstitution-wide attributes.

Part Of



Has PartsRecord type indicator (RECID)UK Provider Reference Number (UKPRN)Institution beds - upper quartile cost (INSTUPPER)Institution beds - lower quartile cost (INSTLOWER)Institution bed number (INSTBEDS)Private beds - upper quartile cost (PRIVATEUPPER)Private beds - lower quartile cost (PRIVATELOWER)Accommodation cost URL (ACCOMURL)Accommodation cost URL - Welsh (ACCOMURLW)National Scholarship Programme participation (NSP)KISCourse

Owner HESA

Version 1.0


Accommodation cost URLType field

Short Name ACCOMURL

Description This field records the URL explaining accommodation costs


Coverage Institutions where not all courses are distance learning

Notes This field must contain a valid website URL which gives further details about theaccommodation options available and what is included within the various costs e.g.periods of lease, services provided.

This must exist unless all courses for which a KIS is required are delivered by distancelearning (i.e. all linked KISCourses have KISCourse.DISTANCE = 1 or null).

Valid URL



Part Of Institution

Field Length 255



Schema Components Element: ACCOMURLData type: URLType


Owner HESA

Version 1.1





Accommodation cost URL - WelshType field

Short Name ACCOMURLW

Description This field records the URL explaining accommodation costs - Welsh

Applicable to Wales

Coverage Institutions in Wales where not all courses are distance learning, where applicable

Notes This field should contain a link to a page with the same details asInstitution.ACCOMURL but in Welsh. This field is only required where institutionalweb-sites use different URLs for Welsh and English language pages.

If applicable, this must exist unless all courses for which a KIS is required are deliveredby distance learning (i.e. all linked KISCourses have KISCourse.DISTANCE = 1 or null).

This field must not exist unless the institution is in Wales.

Valid URL


Business rules 1 Error Institution.ACCOMURLW cannot exist if you are not a Welsh institution


Part Of Institution

Field Length 255



Schema Components Element: ACCOMURLWData type: URLType


Owner HESA

Version 1.1





Institution bed numberType field

Short Name INSTBEDS

Description This field records the number of institution owned/sponsored beds


Coverage If Applicable

Notes This field should contain the number of bed spaces in institution owned/sponsoredaccommodation. This field should not be returned where no such accommodationexists.

If this field does not exist then Institution.INSTUPPPER and Institution.INSTLOWERmust not exist.

This field can contain values in the range 0-99999, validation will restrict the range to1-15000.

Business rules 1 Error If Institution.INSTBEDS exists then Institution.INSTUPPER andInstitution.INSTLOWER must be returned

2 Error If Institution.INSTBEDS does not exist then both Institution.INSTUPPERand Institution.INSTLOWER must not be returned

3 Error The value of Institution.INSTBEDS must lie between 1 and 15000


Part Of Institution

Field Length 5



Schema Components Element: INSTBEDSData type: BEDSType


Owner HESA

Version 1.0


Institution beds - lower quartile costType field

Short Name INSTLOWER

Description This field records the lower quartile annual cost of institution owned/sponsored beds


Coverage All institutions where Institution.INSTBEDS exists

Notes This field should contain the lower quartile of the annual costs of a bed-space ininstitution owned/sponsored accommodation. This field should be omitted where nosuch accommodation exists.


This field must be completed if Institution.INSTBEDS exists.

Business rules 1 Error The value of Institution.INSTLOWER must lie between 1500 and 15000


Part Of Institution

Field Length 5



Schema Components Element: INSTLOWERData type: ANNCOSTSType


Owner HESA

Version 1.0


Institution beds - upper quartile costType field

Short Name INSTUPPER

Description This field records the upper quartile annual cost of institution owned/sponsored beds


Coverage All institutions where Institution.INSTBEDS exists

Notes This field should contain the upper quartile of the annual costs of a bed-space ininstitution owned/sponsored accommodation. This field should not be returned where nosuch accommodation exists.


This field must be completed if Institution.INSTBEDS exists.

Business rules 1 Error Institution.INSTUPPER must be greater than Institution.INSTLOWER2 Error The value of Institution.INSTUPPER must lie between 1500 and 15000


Part Of Institution

Field Length 5



Schema Components Element: INSTUPPERData type: ANNCOSTSType


Owner HESA

Version 1.0


National Scholarship Programme participationType field

Short Name NSP

Description This field records whether the institution is participating in the National ScholarshipProgramme

Applicable to England

Coverage All institutions in England


1 Participating in NSP0 Not Participating in NSP

Notes This field is used for institutions in England to indicate whether the institution intends toparticipate in the National Scholarship Programme (NSP) in 2013/14.

This field must not exist for institutions in Northern Ireland, Scotland or Wales.

Business rules 1 Error Institution.NSP must exist for institutions in England2 Error Institution.NSP cannot exist for institutions in Wales, Scotland or Northern

Ireland


Part Of Institution

Field Length 1



Schema Components Element: NSPData type: NSPCodeContentType


Owner HESA

Version 1.0


Private beds - lower quartile costType field

Short Name PRIVATELOWER

Description This field records the lower quartile annual cost of private sector beds



Notes This field should contain the lower quartile of the annual costs of a bed-space in privatesector accommodation. This must exist unless all courses for which a KIS is requiredare delivered by distance learning (i.e. all linked KISCourses haveKISCourse.DISTANCE = 1 or null).


Business rules 1 Error The value of Institution.PRIVATELOWER must lie between 1500 and15000


Part Of Institution

Field Length 5



Schema Components Element: PRIVATELOWERData type: ANNCOSTSType


Owner HESA

Version 1.0


Private beds - upper quartile costType field

Short Name PRIVATEUPPER

Description This field records the upper quartile annual cost of private sector beds



Notes This field should contain the upper quartile of the annual costs of a bed-space in privatesector accommodation.This must exist unless all courses for which a KIS is required aredelivered by distance learning (i.e. all linked KISCourses have KISCourse.DISTANCE =1 or null).


Business rules 1 Error Institution.PRIVATEUPPER must be greater thanInstitution.PRIVATELOWER

2 Error The value of Institution.PRIVATEUPPER must lie between 1500 and15000


Part Of Institution

Field Length 5



Schema Components Element: PRIVATEUPPERData type: ANNCOSTSType


Owner HESA

Version 1.0


Record type indicatorType field

Short Name RECID

Description The standard HESA record type identifier.


Coverage All institutions


12061 2012/13 Key Information Set (KIS) Record

Notes A single record type covers all of the entities in the XML file.

Reason Required To identify the type of data being submitted and to aid the processing and qualityassurance of data.

Part Of Institution

Field Length 5



Schema Components Element: RECIDData type: RECIDCodeContentType

Owner HESA

Version 1.0


UK Provider Reference NumberType field

Short Name UKPRN

Description This field records the UK Provider Reference Number (UKRPN) which is the uniqueidentifier allocated to institutions by the UK Register of Learning Providers (UKRLP).



Notes This field records the UK Provider Reference Number (UKPRN) which is the uniqueidentifier allocated to institutions by the UK Register of Learning Providers (UKRLP).

Business rules 1 Error Institution.UKPRN must be valid

Reason Required To identify the source of the KIS record

Part Of Institution

Field Length 8



Schema Components Element: UKPRNData type: UKPRNType

Owner UKRLP

Version 1.0


KISCourseType entity

Short Name KISCourse

Description This entity records details of KIS courses



Notes

Reason Required

Part Of Institution


Maximum Occurrences unbounded

Has PartsKIS Course identifier (KISCOURSEID)KIS Type (KISTYPE)Related KIS (RELATEDKIS)The UCAS Programme code for the course (UCASPROGID)The UCAS Course code for the course (UCASCOURSEID)Course title (TITLE)Course title - Welsh (TITLEW)Application UKPRN (UKPRNAPPLY)Course page URL (CRSEURL)Course page URL - Welsh (CRSEURLW)Subject of course - full JACS (JACS)LDCS code (LDCS)Subject of course - JACS level 2 (JACSL2)Teacher training course (TTCID)Part-time only (PTONLY)Level of award (LEVEL)Distance learning only (DISTANCE)Proportion available in Welsh (WELSH)Maximum fee for England domicile (ENGFEE)Maximum fee for Northern Ireland domicile (NIFEE)Maximum fee for Scotland domicile (SCOTFEE)Maximum fee for Wales domicile (WAFEE)Variable Fee (VARFEE)Fees confirmation (FEETBC)Fee waiver availability (WAIVER)Means tested support (MEANSSUP)Non-means-tested support (OTHSUP)Support details URL (SUPPORTURL)Support details URL - Welsh (SUPPORTURLW)Employment details URL (EMPLOYURL)Employment details URL - Welsh (EMPLOYURLW)Non-credit assessment (NONCREDITASSESS)Learning and teaching methods URL (LTURL)Learning and teaching methods URL - Welsh (LTURLW)Assessment methods URL (ASSURL)Assessment methods URL - Welsh (ASSURLW)HESACourseILRAimsCourseStageAccreditation


Owner HESA

Version 1.0


Application UKPRNType field

Short Name UKPRNAPPLY

Description This field records the UK Provider Reference Number (UKPRN) of the institutionstudents apply to


Coverage Courses where students apply other than through the registering institution

Notes This field will be used to allow the KIS site to display courses according to the institutionthat the student applies to rather than the institution that registers the student.

There is further specific information for joint schools in the document Guidance for jointmedical and pharmaceutical schools.

Where an element can occur more than once, only return the number of occurrencesrequired for the data. Padding out the number of elements so that the maximum numberof occurrences are returned will result in values being repeated and potentially distortthe information displayed in KIS.

Business rules 1 Error KISCourse.UKPRNAPPLY must not be equal to Institution.UKPRN2 Error KISCourse.UKPRNAPPLY must be a valid UKPRN

Reason Required Presentation on KIS website and linking to UCAS

Part Of KISCourse

Field Length 8



Schema Components Element: UKPRNAPPLYData type: UKPRNType


Owner UKRLP

Version 1.0


Assessment methods URLType field

Short Name ASSURL

Description This field records the URL explaining assessment methods



Notes This field should contain a URL that links to further explanation about the assessmentmethods for the course. In most cases it is expected that this will be a link directly to theprogramme specification.

This field must not be returned where KISCourse.KISTYPE = 2

Valid URL


For KISTYPE = 3 the URL should point to a generic page that covers the topics forcourses in that subject area. That page may also point to pages that provide details foreach course covered by that subject area. It is recognised that this might meaninstitutions setting up new web pages for this purpose.

Business rules 1 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 2 courses must not contain KISCourse.ASSURL2 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 1 and 3 courses must contain KISCourse.ASSURL


Part Of KISCourse

Field Length 255



Schema Components Element: ASSURLData type: URLType


Owner HESA

Version 1.1





Assessment methods URL - WelshType field

Short Name ASSURLW

Description This field records the URL explaining assessment methods - Welsh

Applicable to Wales

Coverage Institutions in Wales where KISCourse.KISTYPE = 1, 3, where applicable

Notes This field must contain a valid website URL with the same details asKISCourse.ASSURL but in Welsh. This field is only required where institutionalweb-sites use different URLs for Welsh and English language pages.

If applicable, this field must not be returned where KISCourse.KISTYPE = 2.


Valid URL


Business rules 1 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 2 courses must not contain KISCourse.ASSURLW2 Error Institutions outside of Wales cannot return KISCourse.ASSURLW


Part Of KISCourse

Field Length 255



Schema Components Element: ASSURLWData type: URLType


Owner HESA

Version 1.1





Course page URLType field

Short Name CRSEURL

Description This field records the URL for the course page


Coverage Required where KISCourse.KISTYPE = 1, 2 and optional for KISCourse.KISTYPE = 3

Notes This field will be used to provide a link back from the full KIS to the page on theinstitutional website that hosts the KIS widget (information box). Where the widget existson more than one page on the institutional web-site the institution should pick one URLto include.

This field is required where KISCourse.KISTYPE = 1, 2 and optional whereKISTYPE=3.

Valid URL


Maximum occurrences for this field, including for KISTYPE 2, is set at 1

Business rules 1 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 1 and 2 courses must contain KISCourse.CRSEURL

Reason Required Providing link back functionality

Part Of KISCourse

Field Length 255



Schema Components Element: CRSEURLData type: URLType


Owner HESA

Version 1.2





Course page URL - WelshType field

Short Name CRSEURLW

Description This field records the URL for the course page in Welsh

Applicable to Wales

Coverage Institutions in Wales where KISCourse.KISTYPE = 1, 2 (and optionally 3) whereapplicable

Notes This field will be used to provide a link back from the full KIS to the page on theinstitutional website that hosts the KIS widget (information box). Where the widget existson more than one page on the institutional web-site the institution should pick one URLto include. This field is only required where institutional web-sites use different URLs forWelsh and English language pages.

If applicable, this field is required where KISCourse.KISTYPE = 1, 2 and optional whereKISTYPE=3.


Valid URL


Maximum occurrences for this field, including for KISTYPE 2, is set at 1

Business rules 1 Error KISCourse.CRSEURLW can only exist at Welsh institutions

Reason Required Providing link back functionality

Part Of KISCourse

Field Length 255



Schema Components Element: CRSEURLWData type: URLType


Owner HESA

Version 1.1





Course titleType field

Short Name TITLE

Description This field records the title of the course


Coverage All KISCourses where KISCourse.KISTYPE = 1, 2.

Notes This text provided in this field will be used as the title on the full KIS and KIS widget(information box).

This field is required when KISCourse.KISTYPE = 1, 2.

This field must not be returned for KISCourse.KISTYPE = 3.

Valid characters









Files must be encoded with UTF-8 and schema validation will be in place to ensure this.Institutions must specify the encoding used in their XML files in the first line of the file(i.e. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>) and to ensure that their files areactually saved with that encoding. If XML files are edited with some text editors and theencoding is not specified or does not match the actual file encoding, there may beproblems when submitting these files for validation.


Business rules 1 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 1 and 2 courses must contain a KISCourse.TITLE2 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 3 courses must not contain a KISCourse.TITLE

Reason Required Presentation of the KIS

Part Of KISCourse

Field Length 255



Schema Components Element: TITLEData type: TITLEType


Owner HESA

Version 1.0


Course title - WelshType field

Short Name TITLEW

Description This field records the title of the course in Welsh

Applicable to Wales

Coverage All KISCourses where institution in Wales and KISCourse.KISTYPE = 1 or 2, whereapplicable

Notes This text provided in this field will be used as the title on the full KIS and KIS widget(information box) when displayed in Welsh.

This field must exist for institutions in Wales, and must not exist for institution inEngland, Northern Ireland and Scotland.

This field is required when KISCourse.KISTYPE = 1, 2.


Valid characters









Files must be encoded with UTF-8 and schema validation will be in place to ensure this.Institutions must specify the encoding used in their XML files in the first line of the file


(i.e. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>) and to ensure that their files areactually saved with that encoding. If XML files are edited with some text editors and theencoding is not specified or does not match the actual file encoding, there may beproblems when submitting these files for validation.

Business rules 1 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 1 and 2 courses in Welsh institutions must contain aKISCourse.TITLEW field

2 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 3 courses in Welsh institutions must not contain aKISCourse.TITLEW field

3 Error KISCourse.TITLEW cannot be returned by institutions outside of Wales

Reason Required Presentation of the KIS

Part Of KISCourse

Field Length 255



Schema Components Element: TITLEWData type: not-empty-string


Owner HESA

Version 1.0


Distance learning onlyType field

Short Name DISTANCE

Description This field records whether the course is offered through distance learning only


Coverage Where KISCourse.KISTYPE = 1, 3 and no HESACourse or ILRAims exist


1 Course is only available through distance learning0 Course is not only available through distance learning

Notes This field will be used to determine whether details of accommodation costs are given.

This field is required when KISCourse.KISTYPE = 1 and both HESACourse or ILRAimsentities are missing (i.e. for new courses). This field is also required forKISCourse.KISTYPE 3 (where no HESACourse or ILRAims entities can be returned).


Business rules 1 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 1 courses where both KISCourse.HESACourse andKISCourse.ILRAim entities are missing must contain aKISCourse.DISTANCE field

2 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 2 courses cannot contain a KISCourse.DISTANCEfield

3 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 3 courses must contain a KISCourse.DISTANCE field


Part Of KISCourse

Field Length 1



Schema Components Element: DISTANCEData type: DISTANCECodeContentType


Owner HESA

Version 1.0


Employment details URLType field

Short Name EMPLOYURL

Description This field provides links to further details on employment



Notes This field must contain a valid website URL that contains further details about theemployment opportunities for students following successful completion of the course.This page should also contain details of the institution's overall approach to improvingemployability amongst its graduates.


Valid URL



Business rules 1 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 2 courses must not contain KISCourse.EMPLOYURL2 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 1 and 3 courses must contain

KISCourse.EMPLOYURL


Part Of KISCourse

Field Length 255



Schema Components Element: EMPLOYURLData type: URLType


Owner HESA

Version 1.1





Employment details URL - WelshType field

Short Name EMPLOYURLW

Description This field provides links to further details on employment - Welsh

Applicable to Wales

Coverage Institutions in Wales where KISCourse.KISTYPE = 1, 3, where applicable

Notes This field must contain a valid website URL with the same details asKISCourse.EMPLOYURL but in Welsh. This field is only required where institutionalweb-sites use different URLs for Welsh and English language pages.

If applicable, this field should contain a URL for a web-page that contains further detailsabout the employment opportunities for students following successful completion of thecourse. This page should also contain details of the institution's overall approach toimproving employability amongst its graduates.

This field must not be returned where KISCourse.KISTYPE = 2.


Valid URL


Business rules 1 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 2 courses must not containKISCourse.EMPLOYURLW

2 Error Institutions outside of Wales cannot return KISCourse.EMPLOYURLW


Part Of KISCourse

Field Length 255



Schema Components Element: EMPLOYURLWData type: URLType


Owner HESA

Version 1.1


Change management Data type 'URLType' documentation has been updated to clarify the use of '%' and '&'


notes special characters within the URL.


Fee waiver availabilityType field

Short Name WAIVER

Description This field records whether fee waivers are available


Coverage Where KISCourse.KISTYPE = 1, 3 and KISCourse.UCASCOURSEID does not exist


1 Fee waivers available0 Fee waivers not available

Notes This field is used to indicate whether there are any fee waivers available to students onthis course.


A fee waiver is where there is opportunity to pay less than the published fee.

A fee waiver will always be at least in part associated with individual studentcircumstances rather than course characteristics.

Funding available through the National Scholarship Programme should not be includedas a waiver.

Business rules 1 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 2 courses must not contain KISCourse.WAIVER2 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 1 courses where KISCourse.UCASCOURSEID does

not exist and KISCourse.FEETBC = 1 must contain KISCourse.WAIVERfield

3 Error KIS courses where KISCourse.UCASCOURSEID exists cannot contain aKISCourse.WAIVER field


Part Of KISCourse

Field Length 1



Schema Components Element: WAIVERData type: WAIVERCodeContentType


Owner HESA

Version 1.4



Guidance added to the Notes stating that a fee waiver will always be associated at leastin part with individual student circumstances rather than course characteristics.


Fees confirmationType field

Short Name FEETBC

Description This field records whether fees are yet to be confirmed


Coverage Where KISCourse.KISTYPE = 1,3 and KISCourse.UCASCOURSEID does not exist


0 Fees not yet confirmed for 2013/141 Fees confirmed for 2013/14

Notes It is recognised that when the KIS is first published some fees may not yet beconfirmed. Rather than provide estimated fees the KIS will instead simply note that thefees are yet to be confirmed.

This field is required where course fee data is not provided by UCAS.


Business rules 1 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 1 courses where no KISCourse.UCASCOURSEIDfield exists must contain a KISCourse.FEETBC field

2 Error KISCourse.FEETBC must equal 1 when any of the following exist:KISCourse.ENGFEE, KISCourse.NIFEE, KISCourse.WAFEE,KISCourse.SCOTFEE, KISCourse.VARFEE , KISCourse.WAIVER,KISCourse.MEANSSUP, KISCourse.OTHSUP


Part Of KISCourse

Field Length 1



Schema Components Element: FEETBCData type: FEETBCCodeContentType


Owner HESA

Version 1.2



KISCourse.KISTYPE 3 removed from business rule 1. This is to allow the return of jointhonours fees confirmation in KISCourse.FEETBC where the annual fee is not requiredin this field, due to fee variation based on the combination of subjects taken. Newbusiness rule 2 added, requiring that KISCourse.FEETBC must equal 1 when any of thelisted fees fields exist.


KIS Course identifierType field

Short Name KISCOURSEID

Description This field records a unique identifier for the KIS course


Coverage All KISCourses

Notes This field contains a unique code for each course for which a KIS is being produced.The field will be used by the KIS widget to identify the course to which the widgetrelates. Institutions are advised not to update this field annually as this would require anannual update to all widget links. This field together with UKPRN will uniquely identifyeach KIS.

Valid characters









Files must be encoded with UTF-8 and schema validation will be in place to ensure this.Institutions must specify the encoding used in their XML files in the first line of the file(i.e. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>) and to ensure that their files areactually saved with that encoding. If XML files are edited with some text editors and theencoding is not specified or does not match the actual file encoding, there may beproblems when submitting these files for validation.

Reason Required Embedding of widget (information box)


Part Of KISCourse

Field Length 30



Schema Components Element: KISCOURSEIDData type: KISCOURSEIDType

Owner HESA

Version 1.1



Schema updated to ensure that value is unique within Institution


KIS TypeType field

Short Name KISTYPE

Description This field records the type of KIS course


Coverage All KISCourses


1 Full course level KIS2 Multiple subject course placeholder KIS3 Subject level KIS

Notes This field identifies whether the KIS is a full KIS, a placeholder for a multiple subjectcourse or a subject level KIS. Further details about KISTYPE classifications are in theCoverage document.

An HEI can generate a KISTYPE 1 for all their courses, but only if the course meets therequirements in the KIS Manual coverage section.

Reason Required Validation

Part Of KISCourse

Field Length 1



Schema Components Element: KISTYPEData type: KISTYPECodeContentType

Owner HESA

Version 1.0


LDCS codeType field

Short Name LDCS

Description This field records the LDCS (Learn Direct Classification System) code(s) for the course


Coverage FECs where KISCourse.KISTYPE = 1 and no ILRAim entities exist

Notes This field will be used to determine what level of study to include from DLHE and NSSdata where no ILRAims entity exists for this KISCourse.

This field can only be returned if an institution is a further education college.

Valid LDCS codes are available from the Data Service's Learning Aims Databasedownload page.

The valid code structure is two alpha characters then a full stop followed by up to 9numbers.

This field is required when KISCourse.KISTYPE = 1 and ILRAims entity is missing (i.e.for new courses).

This field must not be returned for KISCourse.KISTYPE = 2, 3.

Business rules 1 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 1 courses with no KISCourse.ILRAims entities musthave a KISCourse.LDCS field

2 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 2 and 3 courses cannot contain a KISCourse.LDCSfield

3 Error KISCourse.ILRAIMS entity and KISCourse.LDCS field cannot both bereturned

4 Error Only FECs can return a KISCourse.LDCS field


Part Of KISCourse

Field Length 12



Schema Components Element: LDCSData type: LDCSType


Owner IA

Version 1.1


Change management Business rule 3 added to prevent the return of both the KISCourse.ILRAIMS entity and


notesthe KISCourse.LDCS field. Business rule 4 added to ensure only further educationcolleges return this field. Guidance note added: 'This field can only be returned if aninstitution is a further education college'.


Learning and teaching methods URLType field

Short Name LTURL

Description This field records the URL explaining learning and teaching methods


Coverage All KISCourses where KISCourse.KISTYPE = 1, 3

Notes This field should contain a URL that links to further explanation about the learning andteaching methods for the course. In most cases it is expected that this will be a linkdirectly to the programme specification.


Valid URL



Business rules 1 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 2 courses must not contain KISCourse.LTURL2 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 1 and 3 courses must contain KISCourse.LTURL


Part Of KISCourse

Field Length 255



Schema Components Element: LTURLData type: URLType


Owner HESA

Version 1.1





Learning and teaching methods URL - WelshType field

Short Name LTURLW

Description This field records the URL explaining learning and teaching methods - Welsh

Applicable to Wales

Coverage Institutions in Wales where KISCourse.KISTYPE = 1 or 3, where applicable

Notes This field should contain a link to a page with the same details as KISCourse.LTURL butin Welsh. This field is only required where institutional web-sites use different URLs forWelsh and English language pages.



Valid URL


Business rules 1 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 2 courses must not contain KISCourse.LTURLW2 Error Institutions outside of Wales cannot return KISCourse.LTURLW


Part Of KISCourse

Field Length 255



Schema Components Element: LTURLWData type: URLType


Owner HESA

Version 1.1





Level of awardType field

Short Name LEVEL

Description This field records the broad level of the award arising from the course




F First degreeU Other undergraduate

Notes This field will be used to determine what level of study to include from DLHE and NSSdata where no HESACourse or ILRAims entities exist for this KISCourse.



Business rules 1 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 1 courses where both KISCourse.HESACourse andKISCourse.ILRAim entities are missing must contain a KISCourse.LEVELfield

2 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 2 courses cannot contain a KISCourse.LEVEL field3 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 3 courses must contain a KISCourse.LEVEL field


Part Of KISCourse

Field Length 1



Schema Components Element: LEVELData type: LEVELCodeContentType

Owner HESA

Version 1.0


Maximum fee for England domicileType field

Short Name ENGFEE

Description This field records the average maximum annual fee for the course for an Englanddomiciled student


Coverage Where KISCourse.KISTYPE = 1,3 and KISCourse.UCASCOURSEID does not exist andKISCourse.FEETBC = 1

Notes This field should give the average maximum annual fee for the course as a whole for astudent domiciled in England. Where the course contains optional components thatreduce the fee, for example a sandwich placement, then it should be assumed that thestudent does not take these components when determining the fee level. The valueshould not be reduced to reflect any fee waivers or discounts that are offered.


This field's data type allows values in the range of 0-99999. Business rule 3 restricts therange to 1-9000.

Exceptionally, for some courses it may not be possible for a student to pay a fee for acourse. In these cases the KIS will need to report a zero fee. When returning feeinformation directly to HEFCE the fee should be set to zero. This will fail validation anda switch will need to be applied. Institutions should e-mail [email protected] to obtaina switch. When submitting data via UCAS a value of 1 should be entered. This will bemapped to zero as part of the process of importing UCAS sourced data into the KIS.

Business rules 1 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 2 courses must not contain KISCourse.ENGFEE2 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 1 courses where no KISCourse.UCASCOURSEID

exists and KISCourse.FEETBC=1 must contain a KISCourse.ENGFEEfield

3 Error Value of KISCourse.ENGFEE must be between 1 and 90004 Error Where any of the fields KISCourse.ENGFEE, KISCourse.SCOTFEE,

KISCourse.WAFEE, KISCourse.NIFEE, KISCourse.WAIVER,KISCourse.MEANSSUP, KISCourse.VARFEE or KISCourse.OTHSUPexist then all must exist


Part Of KISCourse

Field Length 5



Schema Components Element: ENGFEEData type: FeeType


Owner HESA


Version 1.4



Guidance added clarifying the procedure for reporting zero fees.


Maximum fee for Northern Ireland domicileType field

Short Name NIFEE

Description This field records the average maximum annual fee for the course for a Northern Irelanddomiciled student



Notes This field should give the average maximum annual fee for the course as a whole for astudent domiciled in Northern Ireland. Where the course contains optional componentsthat reduce the fee, for example a sandwich placement, then it should be assumed thatthe student does not take these components when determining the fee level. The valueshould not be reduced to reflect any fee waivers or discounts that are offered.




Business rules 1 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 2 courses must not contain KISCourse.NIFEE2 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 1 courses where no KISCourse.UCASCOURSEID

exists and KISCourse.FEETBC=1 must contain a KISCourse.NIFEE field3 Error Value of KISCourse.NIFEE must be between 1 and 9000


Part Of KISCourse

Field Length 5



Schema Components Element: NIFEEData type: FeeType


Owner HESA

Version 1.4





Maximum fee for Scotland domicileType field

Short Name SCOTFEE

Description This field records the average maximum annual fee for the course for a Scotlanddomiciled student



Notes This field should give the average maximum annual fee for the course as a whole for astudent domiciled in Scotland. Where the course contains optional components thatreduce the fee, for example a sandwich placement, then it should be assumed that thestudent does not take these components when determining the fee level. The valueshould not be reduced to reflect any fee waivers or discounts that are offered. Inparticular the fee should not be reduced to account for the fee grant paid by SAAS forScottish students.


This field's data type allows values in the range of 0-99999. Business rule 3 restricts therange to 1-9000 for non-Scottish institutions and business rule 4 restricts the range to0-9000 for Scottish institutions.


Business rules 1 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 2 courses must not contain KISCourse.SCOTFEE2 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 1 courses where no KISCourse.UCASCOURSEID

exists and KISCourse.FEETBC=1 must contain a KISCourse.SCOTFEEfield

3 Error Value of KISCourse.SCOTFEE must be between 1 and 9000 fornon-Scottish institutions

4 Error Value of KISCourse.SCOTFEE must be between 0 and 9000 for Scottishinstitutions


Part Of KISCourse

Field Length 5



Schema Components Element: SCOTFEEData type: FeeType



Owner HESA

Version 1.4





Maximum fee for Wales domicileType field

Short Name WAFEE

Description This field records the average maximum annual fee for the course for a Wales domiciledstudent



Notes This field should give the average maximum annual fee for the course as a whole for astudent domiciled in Wales. Where the course contains optional components thatreduce the fee, for example a sandwich placement, then it should be assumed that thestudent does not take these components when determining the fee level. The valueshould not be reduced to reflect any fee waivers or discounts that are offered. Inparticular, the fee should not be reduced to account for the fee grant paid by HEFCWfor Welsh students.




Business rules 1 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 2 courses must not contain KISCourse.WAFEE2 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 1 courses where no KISCourse.UCASCOURSEID

exists and KISCourse.FEETBC=1 must contain a KISCourse.WAFEE field3 Error Value of KISCourse.WAFEE must be between 1 and 9000


Part Of KISCourse

Field Length 5



Schema Components Element: WAFEEData type: FeeType


Owner HESA

Version 1.4



Means tested supportType field

Short Name MEANSSUP

Description This field records whether means tested support is available




1 Means tested support available0 Means tested support not available

Notes This field is used to indicate whether there is any means tested support available tostudents on this course.


Business rules 1 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 2 courses must not contain KISCourse.MEANSSUP2 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 1 courses where KISCourse.UCASCOURSEID does

not exist and KISCourse.FEETBC = 1 must containKISCourse.MEANSSUP field

3 Error KIS courses where KISCourse.UCASCOURSEID exists cannot contain aKISCourse.MEANSSUP field


Part Of KISCourse

Field Length 1



Schema Components Element: MEANSSUPData type: MEANSSUPCodeContentType


Owner HESA

Version 1.3



KISCourse.FEETBC = 1 condition added to business rule 2 to allow submission of aKISCourse with no KISCourse.UCASCOURSEID and where fees are yet to beconfirmed.


Non-credit assessmentType field

Short Name NONCREDITASSESS

Description Indicator of whether course includes assessment not included within breakdown


Coverage All KISCourses where KISCourse.KISTYPE = 1


1 Course includes assessments for which no notional credit value can bedetermined but that the student is required to pass.

0 The course does not include assessments for which no notional creditvalue can be determined.

Notes This field indicates whether the course includes required assessments that have notbeen included within the assessment method breakdown as they cannot be associatedwith the award of credit, yet are nonetheless a requirement of successful completion ofthe course.

Examples might include practical skills assessments in nursing, health and safetycertification for scientists, fitness to practice for medical students, etc.

Where such assessments form part of the course the nature of these additionalassessments should be clear in the web page linked to by KISCourse.ASSURL. WhereCode 1 is returned the KIS will include the following text 'The course contains somecompulsory assessments not included in the above breakdown see institutional websitefor details.'


Business rules 1 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 1 courses must containKISCourse.NONCREDITASSESS

2 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 2 and 3 courses must not containKISCourse.NONCREDITASSESS


Part Of KISCourse

Field Length 1



Schema Components Element: NONCREDITASSESSData type: NONCREDITASSESSCodeContentType


Owner HESA

Version 1.0


Non-means-tested supportType field

Short Name OTHSUP

Description This field records whether non-means-tested support is available




1 Non means tested support available0 Non means tested support not available

Notes This field is used to indicate whether there is any non-means-tested support available tostudents on this course. This might include discounted accommodation, free ITequipment, etc.


Business rules 1 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 2 courses must not contain KISCourse.OTHSUP2 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 1 courses where KISCourse.UCASCOURSEID does

not exist and KISCourse.FEETBC = 1 must contain KISCourse.OTHSUPfield

3 Error KIS courses where KISCourse.UCASCOURSEID exists cannot contain aKISCourse.OTHSUP field


Part Of KISCourse

Field Length 1



Schema Components Element: OTHSUPData type: OTHSUPCodeContentType


Owner HESA

Version 1.3



KISCourse.FEETBC = 1 condition added to business rule 2 to allow submission of aKISCourse with no KISCourse.UCASCOURSEID and where fees are yet to beconfirmed.


Part-time onlyType field

Short Name PTONLY

Description This field records whether the course is offered part-time only




1 Course only available part-time0 Full-time option exists

Notes This field will be used to decide whether to include full-time or part-time data from theDLHE and NSS where no HESACourse entity or ILRAims entity exists.



Business rules 1 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 1 courses where both KISCourse.HESACourse andKISCourse.ILRAim entities are missing must contain aKISCourse.PTONLY field

2 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 2 courses cannot contain a KISCourse.PTONLY field3 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 3 courses must contain a KISCourse.PTONLY field


Part Of KISCourse

Field Length 1



Schema Components Element: PTONLYData type: PTONLYCodeContentType


Owner HESA

Version 1.0


Proportion available in WelshType field

Short Name WELSH

Description This field records the proportion of scheduled teaching and learning activities of thecourse available in Welsh

Applicable to Wales

Coverage Institutions in Wales where KISCourse.KISTYPE = 1, 3

Notes The data should reflect the HESA returns for modules that form part of the course, andalign with the data presented by institutions to the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol for the'Mantais' course finder.

The data should reflect the amount of scheduled Welsh medium teaching and learningavailable, rather than any calculation based on the average student programme of studye.g. if the student may choose to study 360 credits in Welsh on a three year degreecourse, 100% of activities would be available in Welsh; or if the student may choose tostudy 240 credits where three-quarters of the scheduled teaching and learning isavailable in Welsh, 50% ((240*0.75)/360) of the activities would be available in Welsh.The data should reflect the position for each course, whether or not the course has aWelsh, Bilingual or English title.


This field must not be returned where Course.KISTYPE = 2.

This field is required for institutions in Wales only where Course.KISTYPE =1, 3.

Business rules 1 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 1 and 3 courses at Welsh institutions must contain aKISCourse.WELSH field

2 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 2 courses at Welsh institutions must not contain aKISCourse.WELSH field

3 Error Institutions outside of Wales must not contain a KISCourse.WELSH field


Part Of KISCourse

Field Length 3



Schema Components Element: WELSHData type: IntPrcntType


Owner HEFCW

Version 1.0


Related KISType field

Short Name RELATEDKIS

Description This field records the related subject KIS to show for multiple subject courseplaceholder KIS (KISTYPE 2)


Coverage Where KISType = 2

Notes This field records up to three KISCourse.KISTYPE 1 or 3 KISCourse.KISCOURSEID toshow for a multiple subject course placeholder KIS. RELATEDKIS must group eitherKISCourse.KISTYPE = 1 orKISCourse.KISTYPE = 3, and not a mixture (see Coverageof the record for detail).

Business rules 1 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 2 courses must contain a KISCourse.RELATEDKISfield

2 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 1 and 3 courses cannot contain aKISCourse.RELATEDKIS field

3 Error KISCourse.RELATEDKIS must exist as a KISCourse.KISCOURSEIDwithin the file

4 Error All KISCourse.RELATEDKIS must be of the same KISCourse.KISTYPEwithin a KIS course

5 Error KISCourse.RELATEDKIS must be KISCourse.KISTYPE 1 or 3

Reason Required Managing display of KIS

Part Of KISCourse

Field Length 30



Schema Components Element: RELATEDKISData type: KISCOURSEIDType

Owner HESA

Version 1.0


Subject of course - full JACSType field

Short Name JACS

Description This field records the JACS code(s) for the course


Coverage Where KISCourse.KISTYPE = 1 and both HESACourse and ILRAims entities do notexist


A100 Pre-clinical medicineA200 Pre-clinical dentistryA300 Clinical medicineA400 Clinical dentistryA900 Others in medicine & dentistryA990 Medicine & dentistry not elsewhere classifiedA000 Medicine & dentistryB100 Anatomy, physiology & pathologyB110 AnatomyB120 PhysiologyB130 PathologyB131 Cellular pathologyB132 PathobiologyB140 NeuroscienceB160 PhysiotherapyB190 Anatomy, physiology & pathology not elsewhere classifiedB200 Pharmacology, toxicology & pharmacyB210 PharmacologyB220 ToxicologyB230 PharmacyB290 Pharmacology, toxicology & pharmacy not elsewhere classifiedB300 Complementary medicineB310 OsteopathyB320 ChiropracticB330 ChiropodyB340 Alternative medicineB341 ChineseB342 HerbalismB343 AcupunctureB344 AromatherapyB345 HypnotherapyB346 ReflexologyB390 Complementary medicine not elsewhere classifiedB400 NutritionB410 DieteticsB490 Nutrition not elsewhere classifiedB500 OphthalmicsB510 OptometryB520 OrthopticsB590 Ophthalmics not elsewhere classifiedB600 Aural & oral sciencesB610 AudiologyB620 Speech scienceB630 Language pathologyB690 Aural & oral sciences not elsewhere classifiedB700 NursingB701 Palliative care nursingB710 Community nursingB711 District nursing


B712 Health visitingB713 School nursingB714 Practice nursingB720 MidwiferyB730 Paediatric nursingB740 Adult nursingB741 Geriatric nursingB750 Dental nursingB760 Mental health nursingB761 Learning disability nursingB770 Medical nursingB771 Critical care nursingB780 Paramedical nursingB790 Nursing not elsewhere classifiedB800 Medical technologyB810 CardiographyB820 RadiologyB821 Radiography, diagnosticB822 Radiography, therapeuticB830 Biomechanics, biomaterials & prosthetics (non-clinical)B840 Dental technologyB850 Mortuary technologyB890 Medical technology not elsewhere classifiedB900 Others in subjects allied to medicineB910 Environmental healthB920 Occupational healthB930 Occupational therapyB940 CounsellingB990 Subjects allied to medicine not elsewhere classifiedB000 Subjects allied to medicineC100 BiologyC110 Applied biologyC111 ParasitologyC120 Behavioural biologyC130 Cell biologyC131 Applied cell biologyC140 Developmental/reproductive biologyC141 Developmental biologyC142 Reproductive biologyC150 Environmental biologyC160 Marine/freshwater biologyC161 Marine biologyC162 Freshwater biologyC170 Population biologyC180 EcologyC181 BiodiversityC182 EvolutionC190 Biology not elsewhere classifiedC191 BiometryC200 BotanyC210 Applied botanyC220 MycologyC240 Plant cell scienceC250 Plant pathologyC290 Botany not elsewhere classifiedC300 ZoologyC310 Applied zoologyC320 Cell zoologyC330 Developmental zoologyC340 EntomologyC350 Marine zoologyC360 Pest scienceC390 Zoology not elsewhere classifiedC400 Genetics


C410 Applied geneticsC420 Human geneticsC430 Medical & veterinary geneticsC431 Medical geneticsC432 Veterinary geneticsC440 Molecular geneticsC450 GenomicsC460 Genetic engineeringC490 Genetics not elsewhere classifiedC500 MicrobiologyC510 Applied microbiologyC520 Medical & veterinary microbiologyC521 Medical microbiologyC522 Veterinary microbiologyC530 BacteriologyC540 VirologyC550 ImmunologyC570 SerologyC590 Microbiology not elsewhere classifiedC600 Sports scienceC700 Molecular biology, biophysics & biochemistryC710 Applied molecular biology, biophysics & biochemistryC720 Biological chemistryC730 Metabolic biochemistryC740 Medical & veterinary biochemistryC741 Medical biochemistryC742 Veterinary biochemistryC750 Plant biochemistryC760 Biomolecular scienceC770 Biophysical scienceC790 Molecular biology, biophysics & biochemistry not elsewhere classifiedC800 PsychologyC810 Applied psychologyC811 Occupational psychologyC812 Educational psychologyC813 Sport psychologyC814 Organisational psychologyC815 Business psychologyC816 Forensic psychologyC820 Developmental psychologyC821 Child psychologyC822 The psychology of ageingC830 Methodological & conceptual issues in psychologyC831 Research methods in psychologyC832 Quantitative psychologyC833 Qualitative psychologyC834 History of psychologyC835 Philosophy of psychologyC840 Psychology in health & medicineC841 Health psychologyC842 Clinical psychologyC843 Counselling psychologyC844 PsychotherapyC845 Clinical neuropsychologyC846 Community psychologyC847 Psychoanalytical studiesC848 Psychology of mental healthC850 Cognitive & affective psychologyC851 Psychological modellingC852 Psychology of communicationC853 Psychology of memory & learningC854 Psychology of perceptionC855 Psychology of higher cognitive processesC856 Experimental psychology


C857 Affective psychologyC858 Transpersonal psychologyC860 PsychobiologyC861 Cognitive neuroscienceC862 Affective neuroscienceC863 PsychopharmacologyC864 Evolutionary psychologyC865 Animal psychologyC870 Personality & individual differencesC871 PsychometricsC872 Psychology of genderC873 Cross-cultural psychologyC880 Social psychologyC881 Social cognitionC890 Psychology not elsewhere classifiedC900 Others in biological sciencesC910 Applied biological sciencesC990 Biological sciences not elsewhere classifiedC000 Biological sciencesD100 Pre-clinical veterinary medicineD190 Pre-clinical veterinary medicine not elsewhere classifiedD200 Clinical veterinary medicine & dentistryD210 Clinical veterinary medicineD220 Clinical veterinary dentistryD290 Clinical veterinary medicine & dentistry not elsewhere classifiedD300 Animal scienceD310 Veterinary nursingD320 Animal healthD321 Animal anatomyD322 Animal physiologyD323 Animal pathologyD324 Animal pharmacologyD325 Animal toxicologyD326 Animal pharmacyD327 Animal nutritionD328 Animal welfareD330 Veterinary public healthD340 Overseas veterinary developmentD390 Animal sciences not elsewhere classifiedD400 AgricultureD410 Arable & fruit farmingD411 Agricultural pests & diseasesD412 Crop physiologyD413 Crop nutritionD414 Crop protectionD415 Crop productionD416 Glasshouse cultureD417 Amenity plant productionD418 Exotic plants & cropsD420 LivestockD421 Livestock husbandryD422 Equine studiesD423 Poultry keepingD424 GamekeepingD425 Exotic livestockD430 Fish farmingD431 Fish husbandryD432 Freshwater fishD433 Saltwater fishD434 Ornamental fishD435 AquacultureD440 Rural estate managementD441 Farm managementD442 Gamekeeping management


D443 Water resource managementD444 Land management for recreationD445 Heritage managementD446 Wilderness managementD447 Environmental conservationD450 International agricultureD460 Organic farmingD461 Organic arable & fruit farmingD462 Organic livestockD463 Organic fish farmingD470 Agricultural technologyD471 Agricultural machineryD472 Agricultural irrigation & drainageD490 Agriculture not elsewhere classifiedD500 ForestryD510 Trees & shrubsD511 Forestry pests & diseasesD512 Tree physiologyD513 Tree nutritionD514 Tree protectionD515 Tree productionD516 Timber productionD517 Community forestryD520 International forestryD530 Organic forestryD540 Forestry technologyD541 Forestry irrigation & drainageD590 Forestry not elsewhere classifiedD600 Food & beverage studiesD610 Food scienceD611 Meat scienceD612 Cereal scienceD613 Vegetable scienceD614 Fruit scienceD620 Food hygieneD630 Food & beverage productionD631 Food & beverage manufactureD632 Food & beverage processingD633 Food & beverage technologyD634 Industrial bakingD635 Industrial brewingD640 Food & beverages for the consumerD641 Food & beverage packagingD642 Food & beverage deliveryD690 Food & beverage studies not elsewhere classifiedD700 Agricultural sciencesD710 Agricultural biologyD711 Agricultural microbiologyD720 Agricultural chemistryD721 Agricultural biochemistryD730 Agricultural botanyD740 Agricultural zoologyD750 Soil as an agricultural mediumD790 Agricultural sciences not elsewhere classifiedD900 Others in veterinary sciences, agriculture & related subjectsD990 Veterinary sciences, agriculture & related subjects not elsewhere classifiedD000 Veterinary sciences, agriculture & related subjectsF100 ChemistryF110 Applied chemistryF111 Industrial chemistryF112 Colour chemistryF120 Inorganic chemistryF130 Structural chemistryF131 Crystallography


F140 Environmental chemistryF141 Marine chemistryF150 Medicinal chemistryF151 Pharmaceutical chemistryF160 Organic chemistryF161 Organometallic chemistryF162 Polymer chemistryF163 Bio-organic chemistryF164 Petrochemical chemistryF165 Biomolecular chemistryF170 Physical chemistryF180 Analytical chemistryF190 Chemistry not elsewhere classifiedF200 Materials scienceF290 Materials science not elsewhere classifiedF300 PhysicsF310 Applied physicsF311 Engineering physicsF320 Chemical physicsF321 Solid-state physicsF330 Environmental physicsF331 Atmospheric physicsF332 Marine physicsF340 Mathematical & theoretical physicsF341 ElectromagnetismF342 Quantum mechanicsF343 Computational physicsF350 Medical physicsF351 Radiation physicsF360 Optical physicsF361 Laser physicsF370 Nuclear & particle physicsF380 AcousticsF390 Physics not elsewhere classifiedF400 Forensic & archaeological sciencesF410 Forensic scienceF420 Archaeological scienceF490 Forensic & archaeological sciences not elsewhere classifiedF500 AstronomyF510 AstrophysicsF520 Space & planetary sciencesF521 Space scienceF522 Planetary scienceF590 Astronomy not elsewhere classifiedF600 GeologyF610 Applied geologyF611 Industrial geologyF612 Engineering geologyF620 Mining geologyF621 Exploration geologyF630 GeotechnologyF631 Marine geotechnologyF640 Earth scienceF641 PalaeontologyF642 GeoscienceF643 Quaternary studiesF650 Geological oceanographyF660 GeophysicsF661 Exploration geophysicsF670 GeochemistryF690 Geology not elsewhere classifiedF700 Science of aquatic & terrestrial environmentsF710 Marine sciencesF720 Hydrography


F730 Ocean sciencesF750 Environmental sciencesF751 Applied environmental sciencesF752 HydrologyF753 Pollution controlF760 ClimatologyF761 MeteorologyF770 Soil scienceF790 Science of aquatic & terrestrial environments not elsewhere classifiedF800 Physical geographical sciencesF810 Environmental geographyF811 BiogeographyF840 Physical geographyF841 Maritime geographyF842 GeomorphologyF843 TopographyF844 CartographyF845 Remote sensingF846 Geographical information systemsF890 Physical geographical sciences not elsewhere classifiedF900 Others in physical sciencesF990 Physical sciences not elsewhere classifiedF000 Physical sciencesG010 Mathematical scienceG020 Computer scienceG100 MathematicsG110 Pure mathematicsG120 Applied mathematicsG121 Mechanics (mathematical)G130 Mathematical methodsG140 Numerical analysisG150 Mathematical modellingG160 Engineering/industrial mathematicsG190 Mathematics not elsewhere classifiedG200 Operational researchG290 Operational research not elsewhere classifiedG300 StatisticsG310 Applied statisticsG311 Medical statisticsG320 ProbabilityG330 Stochastic processesG340 Statistical modellingG350 Mathematical statisticsG390 Statistics not elsewhere classifiedG400 Computer scienceG410 Computer architectures & operating systemsG411 Computer architecturesG412 Operating systemsG420 Networks & communicationsG430 Computational science foundationsG440 Human-computer interactionG450 Multimedia computing scienceG490 Computer science not elsewhere classifiedG500 Information systemsG510 Information modellingG520 Systems design methodologiesG530 Systems analysis & designG540 DatabasesG550 Systems auditingG560 Data managementG590 Systems analysis & design not elsewhere classifiedG600 Software engineeringG610 Software designG620 Programming


G621 Procedural programmingG622 Object-oriented programmingG623 Declarative programmingG690 Software engineering not elsewhere classifiedG700 Artificial intelligenceG710 Speech & natural language processingG720 Knowledge representationG730 Neural computingG740 Computer visionG750 Cognitive modellingG760 Machine learningG761 Automated reasoningG790 Artificial intelligence not elsewhere classifiedG910 Others in mathematical sciencesG920 Others in computer sciencesH100 General engineeringH110 Integrated engineeringH120 Safety engineeringH121 Fire safety engineeringH122 Water quality controlH123 Public health engineeringH130 Computer-aided engineeringH131 Automated engineering designH140 MechanicsH141 Fluid mechanicsH142 Solid mechanicsH143 Structural mechanicsH150 Engineering designH190 General engineering not elsewhere classifiedH200 Civil engineeringH210 Structural engineeringH220 Environmental engineeringH221 Energy resourcesH222 Coastal decayH223 Environmental impact assessmentH230 Transport engineeringH231 Permanent way engineeringH232 Pavement engineeringH240 Surveying scienceH241 General practice surveyingH242 Engineering surveyingH250 Geotechnical engineeringH290 Civil engineering not elsewhere classifiedH300 Mechanical engineeringH310 DynamicsH311 ThermodynamicsH320 Mechanisms & machinesH321 Turbine technologyH330 Automotive engineeringH331 Road vehicle engineeringH332 Rail vehicle engineeringH333 Ship propulsion engineeringH340 Acoustics & vibrationH341 AcousticsH342 VibrationH350 Offshore engineeringH360 Electromechanical engineeringH390 Mechanical engineering not elsewhere classifiedH400 Aerospace engineeringH410 Aeronautical engineeringH411 Air passenger transport engineeringH412 Air freight transport engineeringH413 Air combat engineeringH420 Astronautical engineering


H430 AvionicsH440 AerodynamicsH441 Flight mechanicsH450 Propulsion systemsH460 Aviation studiesH490 Aerospace engineering not elsewhere classifiedH500 Naval architectureH510 ShipbuildingH511 Surface passenger ship buildingH512 Surface freight ship buildingH513 Surface combat ship buildingH514 Submarine buildingH520 Ship designH521 Surface passenger ship designH522 Surface freight ship designH523 Surface combat ship designH524 Submarine designH590 Naval architecture not elsewhere classifiedH600 Electronic & electrical engineeringH610 Electronic engineeringH611 Microelectronic engineeringH612 Integrated circuit designH620 Electrical engineeringH630 Electrical powerH631 Electrical power generationH632 Electrical power distributionH640 Communications engineeringH641 Telecommunications engineeringH642 Broadcast engineeringH643 Satellite engineeringH644 Microwave engineeringH650 Systems engineeringH651 Digital circuit engineeringH652 Analogue circuit engineeringH660 Control systemsH661 Instrumentation controlH662 Control by light systemsH670 Robotics & cyberneticsH671 RoboticsH672 CyberneticsH673 BioengineeringH674 Virtual reality engineeringH680 Optoelectronic engineeringH690 Electronic & electrical engineering not elsewhere classifiedH700 Production & manufacturing engineeringH710 Manufacturing systems engineeringH711 Manufacturing systems designH712 Manufacturing installation systemsH713 Production processesH714 Manufacturing systems maintenanceH720 Quality assurance engineeringH730 MechatronicsH790 Production & manufacturing engineering not elsewhere classifiedH800 Chemical, process & energy engineeringH810 Chemical engineeringH811 Biochemical engineeringH812 Pharmaceutical engineeringH820 Atomic engineeringH821 Nuclear engineeringH830 Chemical process engineeringH831 Bioprocess engineeringH840 Gas engineeringH850 Petroleum engineeringH890 Chemical, process & energy engineering not elsewhere classified


H900 Others in engineeringH990 Engineering not elsewhere classifiedH000 EngineeringJ100 Minerals technologyJ110 MiningJ120 QuarryingJ130 Rock mechanicsJ140 Minerals processingJ150 Minerals surveyingJ160 Petrochemical technologyJ190 Minerals technology not elsewhere classifiedJ200 MetallurgyJ210 Applied metallurgyJ220 Metallic fabricationJ221 Pattern makingJ230 Corrosion technologyJ290 Metallurgy not elsewhere classifiedJ300 Ceramics & glassJ310 CeramicsJ320 Glass technologyJ390 Ceramics & glass not elsewhere classifiedJ400 Polymers & textilesJ410 Polymers technologyJ411 PlasticsJ420 Textiles technologyJ421 Textile chemistryJ422 Dyeing & colouring of textilesJ430 Leather technologyJ431 TanningJ440 Clothing productionJ441 Machine knittingJ442 Commercial tailoringJ443 Pattern cuttingJ444 MillineryJ445 Footwear productionJ490 Polymers & textiles not elsewhere classifiedJ500 Materials technology not otherwise specifiedJ510 Materials technologyJ511 Engineering materialsJ512 Paper technologyJ513 Furniture technologyJ520 PrintingJ521 Offset lithographyJ522 Photo-lithographyJ523 Reprographic techniquesJ524 Screen process printingJ530 GemmologyJ590 Materials technology not elsewhere classifiedJ600 Maritime technologyJ610 Marine technologyJ611 Marine navigationJ612 Marine radarJ613 Marine radioJ614 Marine plumbingJ690 Maritime technology not elsewhere classifiedJ700 BiotechnologyJ710 Plant biotechnology (crops, trees, shrubs etc.)J720 Animal biotechnologyJ730 Environmental biotechnologyJ740 Industrial biotechnologyJ750 Medical biotechnologyJ790 Biotechnology not elsewhere classifiedJ900 Others in technologyJ910 Energy technologies


J920 ErgonomicsJ930 Audio technologyJ931 Music recordingJ940 Machinery maintenanceJ941 Office machinery maintenanceJ942 Industrial machinery maintenanceJ950 Musical instrument technologyJ960 Transport logisticsJ990 Technologies not elsewhere classifiedJ000 TechnologiesK100 ArchitectureK110 Architectural design theoryK120 Interior architectureK130 Architectural technologyK190 Architecture not elsewhere classifiedK200 BuildingK210 Building technologyK220 Construction managementK230 Building surveyingK240 Quantity surveyingK250 Conservation of buildingsK290 Building not elsewhere classifiedK300 Landscape designK310 Landscape architectureK320 Landscape studiesK390 Landscape design not elsewhere classifiedK400 Planning (urban, rural & regional)K410 Regional planningK420 Urban & rural planningK421 Urban planningK422 Rural planningK430 Planning studiesK440 Urban studiesK450 HousingK460 Transport planningK490 Planning (urban, rural & regional) not elsewhere classifiedK900 Others in architecture, building & planningK990 Architecture, building & planning not elsewhere classifiedK000 Architecture, building & planningL100 EconomicsL110 Applied economicsL111 Financial economicsL112 Agricultural economicsL113 Economic policyL120 MicroeconomicsL130 MacroeconomicsL140 EconometricsL150 Political economicsL160 International economicsL170 Economic systemsL171 CapitalismL172 MonetarismL173 KeynesianismL174 CollectivismL190 Economics not elsewhere classifiedL200 PoliticsL210 Political theoriesL211 LiberalismL212 ConservatismL213 SocialismL214 NationalismL215 FascismL216 FeminismL217 Environmentalism


L218 AnarchismL220 Political systemsL221 AutocracyL222 DemocracyL223 PlutocracyL224 OligarchyL230 UK government/parliamentary studiesL231 Public administrationL232 UK constitutional studiesL240 International politicsL241 European Union politicsL242 Commonwealth politicsL243 Politics of a specific country/regionL244 International constitutional studiesL250 International relationsL251 Strategic studiesL252 War & peace studiesL260 Comparative politicsL290 Politics not elsewhere classifiedL300 SociologyL310 Applied sociologyL320 Gender studiesL321 Women's studiesL322 Men's studiesL330 Ethnic studiesL340 Disability in societyL350 Religion in societyL360 Socio-economicsL370 Social theoryL371 Social hierarchyL380 Political sociologyL390 Sociology not elsewhere classifiedL391 Sociology of science & technologyL400 Social policyL410 UK social policyL420 International social policyL430 Public policyL431 Health policyL432 Welfare policyL433 Education policyL434 Transport policyL435 Security policyL490 Social policy not elsewhere classifiedL500 Social workL510 Health & welfareL520 Child careL530 Youth workL540 Community workL550 Careers guidanceL560 Probation/after-careL590 Social work not elsewhere classifiedL600 AnthropologyL610 Social & cultural anthropologyL620 Physical & biological anthropologyL690 Anthropology not elsewhere classifiedL700 Human & social geographyL710 Human & social geography by areaL711 Human & social geography of EuropeL712 Human & social geography of AsiaL713 Human & social geography of AfricaL714 Human & social geography of AustralasiaL715 Human & social geography of the AmericasL716 Human & social geography of the Arctic/AntarcticL720 Human & social geography by topic


L721 Economic geographyL722 Urban geographyL723 Political geographyL724 Transport geographyL725 Historical geographyL726 Cultural geographyL727 Agricultural geographyL790 Human & social geography not elsewhere classifiedL900 Others in social studiesL990 Social studies not elsewhere classifiedL000 Social studiesM100 Law by areaM110 UK legal systemsM111 English lawM112 Welsh lawM113 Northern Irish lawM114 Scottish lawM120 European Union lawM130 Public international lawM140 Comparative lawM190 Law by area not elsewhere classifiedM200 Law by topicM210 Public lawM211 Criminal lawM220 Private lawM221 Business & commercial lawM222 Contract lawM223 Property lawM224 TortsM240 JurisprudenceM250 Legal practiceM260 Medical lawM290 Law by topic not elsewhere classifiedM900 Others in lawM990 Law not elsewhere classifiedM000 LawN100 Business studiesN110 European business studiesN120 International business studiesN190 Business studies not elsewhere classifiedN200 Management studiesN210 Management techniquesN211 Strategic managementN212 Creative managementN213 Project managementN214 Change managementN215 Organisational developmentN220 Institutional managementN223 Domestic managementN224 Management & organisation of educationN230 Land & property managementN231 Land managementN232 Property managementN234 Property valuation & auctioneeringN240 Retail managementN290 Management studies not elsewhere classifiedN300 FinanceN310 BankingN320 Investment & insuranceN321 InvestmentN322 InsuranceN323 Actuarial scienceN330 TaxationN340 Financial management


N341 Financial riskN390 Finance not elsewhere classifiedN400 AccountingN410 AccountancyN411 Cost & management accountancyN412 Public accountancyN413 Book keepingN420 Accounting theoryN421 Auditing of accountsN422 Financial reportingN490 Accounting not elsewhere classifiedN500 MarketingN510 Market researchN520 Sales managementN530 DistributionN550 International marketingN560 Promotion & advertisingN561 AdvertisingN562 Corporate imageN563 SponsorshipN590 Marketing not elsewhere classifiedN600 Human resource managementN611 Industrial relationsN612 Staff developmentN613 Training methodsN614 Recruitment methodsN620 Health & safety issuesN690 Human resources management not elsewhere classifiedN700 Office skillsN710 Office administrationN720 Secretarial & typing skillsN721 Audio typingN722 Shorthand & shorthand transcriptionN790 Office skills not elsewhere classifiedN800 Hospitality, leisure, tourism & transportN810 Travel managementN820 Event managementN830 TourismN831 Tourism studiesN832 Tourism managementN850 Transport studiesN851 Land travelN852 Sea travelN853 Air travelN860 HospitalityN861 Hospitality studiesN862 Hospitality managementN870 Recreation, sport & leisure studiesN890 Hospitality, leisure, tourism & transport not elsewhere classifiedN900 Others in business & administrative studiesN990 Business & administrative studies not elsewhere classifiedN000 Business & administrative studiesP100 Information servicesP110 Information managementP120 LibrarianshipP121 Library studiesP130 Curatorial studiesP131 Museum studiesP132 Archive studiesP190 Information services not elsewhere classifiedP200 Publicity studiesP210 Public relationsP290 Publicity studies not elsewhere classifiedP300 Media studies


P301 Television studiesP302 Radio studiesP303 Film studiesP304 Electronic media studiesP305 Paper-based media studiesP310 Media productionP311 Television productionP312 Radio productionP313 Film productionP390 Media studies not elsewhere classifiedP400 PublishingP410 Electronic publishingP411 Publishing on audio/video tapeP412 Publishing on CD-ROMP413 Publishing via the World Wide WebP420 Multimedia publishingP430 Interactive publishingP490 Publishing not elsewhere classifiedP500 JournalismP510 Factual reportingP590 Journalism not elsewhere classifiedP900 Others in mass communications & documentationP990 Mass communications & documentation not elsewhere classifiedP000 Mass communications & documentationQ100 LinguisticsQ110 Applied linguisticsQ120 Historical linguisticsQ130 Phonetics & phonologyQ131 PhoneticsQ132 PhonologyQ140 SociolinguisticsQ150 PsycholinguisticsQ190 Linguistics not elsewhere classifiedQ200 Comparative literary studiesQ210 Literature in translationQ220 Literature in its original languageQ290 Comparative literary studies not elsewhere classifiedQ300 English studiesQ310 English languageQ320 English literatureQ321 English literature by periodQ322 English literature by authorQ323 English literature by topicQ330 English as a second languageQ340 English literature written as a second languageQ390 English studies not elsewhere classifiedQ400 Ancient language studiesQ410 Ancient EgyptianQ411 CopticQ420 Classical ArabicQ430 AkkadianQ440 SumerianQ450 SanskritQ460 PrakritQ470 AramaicQ480 HebrewQ490 Ancient language studies not elsewhere classifiedQ500 Celtic studiesQ510 Ancient Celtic studiesQ520 Modern Celtic studiesQ521 Goidelic group of languagesQ522 Brythonic group of languagesQ530 Scottish GaelicQ531 Scottish Gaelic literature


Q540 Irish GaelicQ541 Irish Gaelic literatureQ550 ManxQ551 Manx literatureQ560 WelshQ561 Welsh literatureQ570 CornishQ571 Cornish literatureQ580 BretonQ581 Breton literatureQ590 Celtic studies not elsewhere classifiedQ600 Latin studiesQ610 Latin languageQ611 Church LatinQ612 Medieval LatinQ620 Latin literatureQ630 Latin literature in translationQ690 Latin studies not elsewhere classifiedQ700 Classical Greek studiesQ710 Classical Greek languageQ711 Classical Church GreekQ712 Late GreekQ720 Classical Greek literatureQ730 Classical Greek literature in translationQ790 Classical Greek studies not elsewhere classifiedQ800 Classical studiesQ890 Classical studies not elsewhere classifiedQ900 Others in linguistics, classics & related subjectsQ910 Translation studiesQ920 Translation theoryQ990 Linguistics, classics & related subjects not elsewhere classifiedQ000 Linguistics, classics & related subjectsR100 French studiesR110 French languageR120 French literatureR130 French society & cultureR190 French studies not elsewhere classifiedR200 German studiesR210 German languageR220 German literatureR230 German society & cultureR290 German studies not elsewhere classifiedR300 Italian studiesR310 Italian languageR320 Italian literatureR330 Italian society & cultureR390 Italian studies not elsewhere classifiedR400 Spanish studiesR410 Spanish languageR411 Spanish languages in other countriesR420 Spanish literatureR430 Spanish society & cultureR490 Spanish studies not elsewhere classifiedR500 Portuguese studiesR510 Portuguese languageR511 Portuguese languages in other countriesR520 Portuguese literatureR530 Portuguese society & cultureR590 Portuguese studies not elsewhere classifiedR600 Scandinavian studiesR610 Scandinavian languagesR611 Swedish languageR612 Norwegian languageR613 Finnish language


R614 Danish languageR620 Scandinavian literatureR621 Swedish literatureR622 Norwegian literatureR623 Finnish literatureR624 Danish literatureR630 Scandinavian society & cultureR631 Swedish society & cultureR632 Norwegian society & cultureR633 Finnish society & cultureR634 Danish society & cultureR690 Scandinavian studies not elsewhere classifiedR700 Russian & East European studiesR710 Russian & East European languagesR711 Russian languageR712 Polish languageR713 Czech languageR720 Russian & East European LiteratureR721 Russian literatureR722 Polish literatureR723 Czech literatureR730 Russian & East European society & cultureR731 Russian society & cultureR732 Polish society & cultureR733 Czech society & cultureR790 Russian & East European studies not elsewhere classifiedR800 European studiesR900 Others in European languages, literature & related subjectsR910 Other European languagesR911 DutchR912 FlemishR920 Other European literatureR930 Other European societies & culturesR990 European languages, literature & related subjects not elsewhere classifiedR000 European languages, literature & related subjectsT100 Chinese studiesT110 Chinese language studiesT120 Chinese literature studiesT130 Chinese society & culture studiesT190 Chinese studies not elsewhere classifiedT200 Japanese studiesT210 Japanese language studiesT220 Japanese literature studiesT230 Japanese society & culture studiesT290 Japanese studies not elsewhere classifiedT300 South Asian studiesT310 South Asian language studiesT320 South Asian literature studiesT330 South Asian society & culture studiesT390 South Asian studies not elsewhere classifiedT400 Other Asian studiesT410 Other Asian language studiesT420 Other Asian Literature StudiesT430 Other Asian society & culture studiesT490 Other Asian studies not elsewhere classifiedT500 African studiesT510 African language studiesT520 African literature studiesT530 African society & culture studiesT590 African studies not elsewhere classifiedT600 Modern Middle Eastern studiesT610 Modern Middle Eastern language studiesT620 Modern Middle Eastern literature studiesT630 Modern Middle Eastern society & culture studies


T690 Modern Middle Eastern studies not elsewhere classifiedT700 American studiesT710 American language studiesT711 Latin American language studiesT720 American literature studiesT721 Latin American literature studiesT730 American society & culture studiesT731 Latin American society & culture studiesT790 American studies not elsewhere classifiedT800 Australasian studiesT810 Australasian language studiesT820 Australasian literature studiesT830 Australasian society & culture studiesT890 Australasian studies not elsewhere classifiedT900 Others in Eastern, Asiatic, African, American & Australasian languages,

literature & related subjectsT910 Others in Eastern, Asiatic, African, American & Australasian languagesT920 Others in Eastern, Asiatic, African, American & Australasian literatureT930 Others in Eastern, Asiatic, African, American & Australasian societies &

cultureT990 Eastern, Asiatic, African, American & Australasian languages, literatureT000 Eastern, Asiatic, African, American & Australasian languages, literature &

related subjectsV100 History by periodV110 Ancient historyV120 Byzantine historyV130 Medieval historyV140 Modern historyV141 Modern history 1500-1599V142 Modern history 1600-1699V143 Modern history 1700-1799V144 Modern history 1800-1899V145 Modern history 1900-1919V146 Modern history 1920-1949V147 Modern history 1950-1999V148 Modern history 2000-2099V190 History by period not elsewhere classifiedV200 History by areaV210 British historyV211 Irish historyV212 Scottish historyV213 Welsh historyV214 English historyV220 European historyV221 French historyV222 German historyV223 Italian historyV224 Iberian historyV225 Russian historyV230 American historyV231 Canadian historyV232 USA historyV233 South American historyV234 Central American historyV240 Asian historyV241 Chinese historyV242 Indian historyV243 South East Asian historyV250 African historyV251 North African historyV252 Central African historyV253 Southern African historyV254 East African historyV255 West African history


V260 Australasian historyV261 Australian historyV262 New Zealand historyV270 World historyV271 International historyV290 History by area not elsewhere classifiedV300 History by topicV310 Economic historyV320 Social historyV321 Local historyV322 Oral historyV323 Family historyV330 History of religionsV340 Intellectual historyV350 History of artV360 History of architectureV370 History of designV380 History of scienceV381 History of physicsV382 History of chemistryV383 History of mathematicsV390 History by topic not elsewhere classifiedV391 Military historyV400 ArchaeologyV410 EgyptologyV420 Stone AgeV430 Bronze AgeV440 Iron AgeV450 Archaeological conservationV460 Archaeological techniquesV490 Archaeology not elsewhere classifiedV500 PhilosophyV510 MetaphysicsV511 EpistemologyV520 Moral philosophyV530 Scholastic philosophyV540 Social philosophyV550 Philosophy of scienceV560 Mental philosophyV590 Philosophy not elsewhere classifiedV600 Theology & religious studiesV610 TheologyV620 Religious studiesV621 Christian studiesV622 Islamic studiesV623 JudaismV624 HinduismV625 BuddhismV626 Other Asian religious studiesV627 Comparative religious studiesV630 DivinityV640 Religious writingsV641 The Bible & Christian textsV642 The Qur'an & Islamic textsV643 The Torah & Judaic textsV644 Asian religious textsV645 Comparative religious textsV650 Pastoral studiesV690 Theology & religious studies not elsewhere classifiedV900 Others in historical & philosophical studiesV990 Historical & philosophical studies not elsewhere classifiedV000 Historical & philosophical studiesW100 Fine artW110 Drawing


W120 PaintingW130 SculptureW140 PrintmakingW150 CalligraphyW160 Fine art conservationW190 Fine art not elsewhere classifiedW200 Design studiesW210 Graphic designW211 TypographyW212 Multimedia designW213 Visual communicationW220 IllustrationW230 Clothing/fashion designW231 Textile designW240 Industrial/product designW250 Interior designW260 Furniture designW270 Ceramics designW280 Interactive & electronic designW290 Design studies not elsewhere classifiedW300 MusicW310 Musicianship/performance studiesW330 History of musicW340 Types of musicW350 MusicologyW360 Musical instrument historyW390 Music not elsewhere classifiedW400 DramaW410 ActingW420 Directing for theatreW430 Producing for theatreW440 Theatre studiesW450 Stage managementW451 Theatrical wardrobe designW452 Theatrical make-upW460 Theatre designW461 Stage designW490 Drama not elsewhere classifiedW500 DanceW510 ChoreographyW520 Body awarenessW530 History of danceW540 Types of danceW590 Dance not elsewhere classifiedW600 Cinematics & photographyW610 Moving image techniquesW611 Directing motion picturesW612 Producing motion picturesW613 Film & sound recordingW614 Visual & audio effectsW615 Animation techniquesW620 CinematographyW630 History of cinematics & photographyW631 History of cinematicsW632 History of photographyW640 PhotographyW690 Cinematics & photography not elsewhere classifiedW700 CraftsW710 Fabric & leather craftsW711 NeedlecraftW712 DressmakingW713 Soft furnishingW714 WeavingW715 Leatherwork


W720 Metal craftsW721 Silversmithing/goldsmithingW722 BlacksmithingW723 Clock/watchmakingW730 Wood craftsW731 Carpentry/joineryW732 Cabinet makingW733 Marquetry & inlayingW734 VeneeringW740 Surface decorationW750 Clay & stone craftsW751 PotteryW752 Tile makingW753 Stone craftsW760 Reed craftsW761 BasketryW762 ThatchingW770 Glass craftsW771 GlassblowingW780 Paper craftsW781 BookbindingW782 OrigamiW790 Crafts not elsewhere classifiedW800 Imaginative writingW810 ScriptwritingW820 Poetry writingW830 Prose writingW890 Imaginative writing not elsewhere classifiedW900 Others in creative arts & designW990 Creative arts & design not elsewhere classifiedW000 Creative arts & designX100 Training teachersX110 Training teachers - nurseryX120 Training teachers - primaryX121 Training teachers - infant (key stage 1)X122 Training teachers - junior (key stage 2)X130 Training teachers - secondaryX131 Training teachers - key stage 3X132 Training teachers - key stage 4X140 Training teachers - tertiaryX141 Training teachers - further educationX142 Training teachers - higher educationX150 Training teachers - adult educationX151 Training teachers - coachingX160 Training teachers - specialistX161 Training teachers - special needsX162 Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL)X190 Training teachers not elsewhere classifiedX200 Research & study skills in educationX210 Research skillsX220 Study skillsX290 Research & study skills in education not elsewhere classifiedX300 Academic studies in educationX310 Academic studies in nursery educationX320 Academic studies in primary educationX330 Academic studies in secondary educationX340 Academic studies in tertiary educationX341 Academic studies in further educationX342 Academic studies in higher educationX350 Academic studies in adult educationX360 Academic studies in specialist educationX370 Academic studies in education (across phases)X390 Academic studies in education not elsewhere classifiedX900 Others in education


X990 Education not elsewhere classifiedX000 EducationY000 Combined/general subject unspecified

Notes This field will be used to link DLHE and NSS data into the KIS where no HESACourseentity exists for this KISCourse. Further details on the mapping of DLHE and NSS dataare provided in Inclusion of NSS and DLHE data.

This field can only be returned if an institution is a higher education college or privateprovider. It should not be returned by a further education institution.

This field uses the JACS2 coding frame.

This field is required when KISCourse.KISTYPE = 1 and both HESACourse or ILRAimsentities are missing (i.e. for new courses).

This field must not be returned for KISCourse.KISTYPE = 2 or 3.

JACS2.0 should be used until the 2014 KIS as this is the first year that HESA studentdata using JACS3.0 will be available for linking. In the transition year we will map theJACS2.0 data in the 2011/12 KIS Record to JACS3.0 for the purposes of aggregatingthe data.

Business rules 1 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 1 courses with no KISCourse.HESACourse entitiesmust have a KISCourse.JACS field

2 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 2 and 3 courses cannot contain a KISCourse.JACSfield

3 Error KISCourse.HESACourse entity and KISCourse.JACS field cannot both bereturned

4 Error FECs cannot return a KISCourse.JACS field5 Error Welsh FECs must return either KISCourse.LDCS or KISCOURSE.JACS

for KISCourse.KISTYPE 1 courses


Part Of KISCourse

Field Length 4



Schema Components Element: JACSData type: JACSCodeContentType

Owner HESA

Version 1.2



Business rule 5 added stating that Welsh FECs must return a KISCourse.LDCS orKISCourse.JACS field for KISCourse.KISTYPE 1 courses.


Subject of course - JACS level 2Type field

Short Name JACSL2

Description This field records the JACS level 2 subject code(s) for subject based KIS


Coverage Where KISCourse.KISTYPE = 3


01 Medicine and Dentistry02 Medical Science and Pharmacy03 Nursing04 Other subjects allied to Medicine05 Biology and related Sciences06 Sports Science07 Psychology08 Veterinary Sciences09 Agriculture and related subjects10 Physical Science11 Physical Geography and Environmental Science12 Mathematical Sciences13 Computer Science14 Mechanically-based Engineering15 Electronic and Electrical Engineering16 Civil, Chemical and other Engineering17 Technology18 Architecture, Building and Planning19 Economics20 Politics21 Sociology, Social Policy and Anthropology22 Social Work23 Human and Social Geography24 Law25 Business26 Management27 Finance and Accounting28 Tourism, Transport, Travel and others in Business and Administrative

studies29 Media studies30 Communications and Information studies31 English-based studies32 European Languages and Area studies33 Other Languages and Area studies34 History and Archaeology35 Philosophy, Theology and Religious studies36 Art and Design37 Performing Arts38 Other Creative Arts39 Teacher Training40 Education studies41 Combined42 Initial Teacher Training077 Celtic studies

Notes This field will be used to link DLHE and NSS data into the KIS where no HESACourseor ILRAims entities exist for this KISCourse. Further details on the mapping of DLHEand NSS data are provided in Inclusion of NSS and DLHE data.


This field is required when KISCourse.KISTYPE = 3 and both HESACourse or ILRAimsentities are missing (i.e. for new courses).

This field must not be returned for KISCourse.KISTYPE = 1 or 2.

Code 077 – ‘Celtic studies' should be used where Celtic studies is offered as part of amultiple subject course.

JACS2.0 should be used until the 2014 KIS as this is the first year that HESA studentdata using JACS3.0 will be available for linking. In the transition year we will map theJACS2.0 data in the 2011/12 KIS Record to JACS3.0 for the purposes of aggregatingthe data.

Business rules 1 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 3 courses must contain a KISCourse.JACSL2 field2 Error Only KISCourse.KISTYPE 3 courses can contain a KISCourse.JACSL2

field


Part Of KISCourse

Field Length 3



Schema Components Element: JACSL2Data type: JACSL2CodeContentType

Owner HEFCE

Version 1.1



New valid entry '077 - Celtic studies' added to the valid entries list to allow subject levelKIS to be provided where Celtic studies is offered as part of a multiple subject courseand no KISTYPE 1 exists. Field length increased to 3 accordingly.


Support details URLType field

Short Name SUPPORTURL

Description This field provides links to further details on financial support



Notes This field should contain a URL for a web-page that contains further details about thefinancial support available to students. It is for institutions to decide whether the page iscourse specific although the decision should be driven by the degree to which supportvaries between individual courses.

Institutions in Wales will need to ensure that the page also contains details of, or linksto, further information about the costs of study as detailed in the HEFCW circularW10/07HE.


Valid URL


Business rules 1 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 2 courses must not containKISCourse.SUPPORTURL

2 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 1 and 3 courses must containKISCourse.SUPPORTURL


Part Of KISCourse

Field Length 255



Schema Components Element: SUPPORTURLData type: URLType


Owner HESA

Version 1.1





Support details URL - WelshType field

Short Name SUPPORTURLW

Description This field provides links to further details on financial support - Welsh

Applicable to Wales

Coverage Institutions in Wales where KISCourse.KISTYPE = 1 or 3, where applicable

Notes This field should contain a link to a page with the same details asKISCourse.SupportURL but in Welsh. This field is only required where institutionalweb-sites use different URLs for Welsh and English language pages.

If applicable, this field must not be returned where KISCourse.KISTYPE = 2.


Valid URL


Business rules 1 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 2 courses must not containKISCourse.SUPPORTURLW

2 Error Institutions outside of Wales cannot return KISCourse.SUPPORTURLW


Part Of KISCourse

Field Length 255



Schema Components Element: SUPPORTURLWData type: URLType


Owner HESA

Version 1.1





Teacher training courseType field

Short Name TTCID

Description This field records Teacher Training Course Identifiers


Coverage Where KISCourse.KISTYPE = 1 and both HESACourse and ILRAims entities do notexist


0 Not a teacher training course1 On initial or pre-service teacher training course leading to Qualified

Teacher Status or to registration as a school teacher with the GeneralTeaching Council for Scotland

2 On other initial teacher training course not leading to Qualified TeacherStatus nor to registration as a school teacher with the General TeachingCouncil for Scotland

5 Inset course8 TDA funded flexible provision (ITT)9 Other TDA funded provision not elsewhere specifiedD Other Pre-ITT activity funded by the TDAF Subject Knowledge Enhancement (SKE) - TDA fundedG School Direct initiative (mainstream)H School Direct initiative (flexible)J School-led HEI provision (mainstream)K School-led HEI provision (flexible)

Notes This field will be used to link DLHE and NSS data into the KIS where no HESA coursecodes or ILR aims are given.

The valid entries for this field match Course.TTCID codes from HESA Student record


This field is required where KISCourse.KISTYPE = 1 and both HESACourse andILRAims entities are missing.

Business rules 1 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 1 courses where both KISCourse.HESACourse andKISCourse.ILRAim entities are missing must contain a KISCourse.TTCIDfield

2 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 2 and 3 courses cannot contain a KISCourse.TTCIDfield


Part Of KISCourse

Field Length 1



Schema Components Element: TTCIDData type: TTCIDCodeContentType



Owner HESA

Version 1.1



Valid entries added to match the 2012/13 HESA Student record additions: G SchoolDirect initiative (mainstream); H School Direct initiative (flexible); J School-led HEIprovision (mainstream); K School-led HEI provision (flexible).


The UCAS Course code for the courseType field

Short Name UCASCOURSEID

Description This field records the UCAS course code(s) for the KISCourse


Coverage Where KISCourse.KISTYPE = 1, 2 and the courses recruit through UCAS and separateKIS to be produced

Notes This field should contain the UCAS Course code for 2013.

This field must contain a valid UCAS Course code.

UCASCOURSEID for a KISCourse.KISCOURSEID must be provided.

This field must not exist if KISCourse.KISTYPE = 3.

There is a one-to-one relationship between UCASCOURSEID andKISCourse.KISCOURSEID.

Business rules 1 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 3 courses that are not Combined studies(JACSL2=41) cannot contain a KISCourse.UCASCOURSEID

Reason Required Linking to UCAS

Part Of KISCourse

Field Length 4



Schema Components Element: UCASCOURSEIDData type: UCASCOURSEIDType

Year This Field RelatesTo UCAS Apply 2013

Owner UCAS

Version 1.3



Business rule 2 (Error) KISCourse.KISTYPE 2 courses cannot containKISCourse.UCASCOURSEID has been removed.


The UCAS Programme code for the courseType field

Short Name UCASPROGID

Description This field records the UCAS programme code


Coverage Where KISCourse.KISTYPE = 1, 2 and the course recruits through UCAS

Notes This field is not in use for the KIS collection 2012/13 (C12061).

Business rules 1 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 3 courses that are not Combined studies(JACSL2=41) cannot contain a KISCourse.UCASPROGID

2 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 2 courses cannot contain aKISCourse.UCASPROGID

Reason Required Linking to UCAS

Part Of KISCourse

Field Length 9



Schema Components Element: UCASPROGIDData type: UCASPROGIDType

Year This Field RelatesTo UCAS Apply 2013

Owner UCAS

Version 1.2



Notes section updated to state that this field is not to be used for 2013/14.


Variable FeeType field

Short Name VARFEE

Description This field records whether the fee varies by year


Coverage KIS courses where KISCourse.UCASCOURSEID does not exist andKISCourse.FEETBC = 1 and KISCourse.KISTYPE = 1, 3


10 Fees will increase with inflation11 Fees vary by year and will increase with inflation20 Fixed fee for all years21 Fees vary by year but will not be increased for inflation

Notes This field records whether the fee varies by year and whether or not the institutionexpects that fees will be increased in later years to reflect inflation. Where the fee willonly vary due to inflation code 10 should be used. Where the fee varies both withinflation and by course year/stage, then code 11 should be used.

Codes 11 and 21 should only be used if the institution anticipates charging different feesin each year above and beyond variations caused by inflation. If the institution is notclear whether fees will rise with inflation codes 10 and 11 should be used.


This field is not required where course fee information is being provided through UCAS,through KISCourse.UCASCOURSEID.

Business rules 1 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 2 courses must not contain KISCourse.VARFEE2 Error KISCourse.KISTYPE 1 courses where no KISCourse.UCASCOURSEID

field exists and KISCourse.FEETBC=1 must contain a KISCourse.VARFEEfield


Part Of KISCourse

Field Length 2



Schema Components Element: VARFEEData type: VARFEECodeContentType


Owner HESA

Version 1.3



Business rule 2 and business rule 3 have been combined into a single new businessrule 2, to align more closely with business rule 2 of other fee fields.


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