Parental education(PARED)

All EntryProfiles at providers in England where (FundingBody.FUNDINGBODY = Office for Students or Department for Education) and (Qualification.QUALCAT has a HESA level of H, I, J or C or is M0002, M0016 or M0018 excluding H0009 and H0010) and Engagement.INCOMINGEXCHANGE does not exist and the first Engagement.ENGSTARTDATE for the Engagement is after 2007-07-31.

All EntryProfiles at providers in Wales where (EntryProfile.PERMADCOUNTRY = XF, XG, XH, XI, XK, XL, GG, JE or IM) and (Qualification.QUALCAT with H, I, J or C or is M0002).

All EntryProfiles at providers in Northern Ireland where EntryProfile.PERMADCOUNTRY = XF, XG, XH, XI, XK, XL, GG, JE or IM.

All EntryProfiles at providers in Scotland where (EntryProfile.PERMADCOUNTRY =XF, XG, XH, XI, XK, XL, GG, JE or IM) and (Qualification.QUALCAT equals M0002, H0003, H0004, H0005, I0001, J0000, J0001, J0002, J0003, C0000, C0001) and StudentCourseSession.INTERCALATION does not equal 01 and Engagement.INCOMINGEXCHANGE does not exist.

This data is required at entry to a student's engagement and is not required to be maintained throughout a student's Engagement.

Currently this question is asked on the UCAS application form and the data for UCAS entrants is provided to providers by UCAS. Providers will still need to collect this information directly from relevant non-UCAS entrants.

Suggested question:

The following question is about your parents' level of education. This includes natural parents, adoptive parents, step-parents or guardians who have brought you up.

Do any of your parents (as defined above) have any higher education qualifications, such as a degree, diploma or certificate of higher education?

97 would be returned where the Student has indicated that they do not know the information.

99 must be returned where the data is not known by the provider.