Session year start date(SYSTARTDATE)
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Key | Value |
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Name | Session year start date |
Short Name | SYSTARTDATE |
Parent Entity | |
Type | Field |
Applicable To | England Northern Ireland Scotland Wales |
Coverage | All SessionYear entities |
Description | This field records the start date of the SessionYear |
Notes | The start date of the SessionYear will reflect the planned start date of a Course year. Provided the start date is within 14 days of the actual planned start date for a Course year, a different SessionYear is not required to be returned to reflect different Courses, modes of study or type of study e.g. placement or foundation years. All date fields must be completed using the ISO8601 format of YYYY-MM-DD. |
Reason Required | To record the planned start date for a year of a Course, to give context to the associated StudentCourseSession start date to identify e.g. late starters. |
Field Length | 10 |
Quality Rules | Quality Rules to follow |
Minimum Occurrence | 1 |
Maximum Occurrence | 1 |
Primary Key? | False |
Revision History | https://www.hesa.ac.uk/support/coding-manual-tools/revision-histories?Collection=22056 |