Student Support Number: Field
Definition
This field holds the Student Support Number assigned by Student Support Award Authorities (Northern Ireland Library Boards, Welsh Local Authorities, Student Awards Agency for Scotland (SAAS) and Student Loans Company (SLC)). It is the student identifier that is used in student finance communications between the Student Support Award Authorities, institutions and SLC.
Reason Required
To enable robust linking between HESA data and the student finance data held by SLC.
Schema Definitions
- XML Entity Name
- SSN
- Field Length
- 13
- Data type
- RestrictedString
- Minimum occurrences
- 0
- Maximum occurrences
- 1
- Part of
- LearningDeliveryHE
Collection Requirements
- Collected for all aims
Valid Entries
The SSN is 13 characters long. The first four characters are alpha. The next 8 characters are numeric. The last character is alpha, which is a check character. For example Student Support Number = WADM46891352A
Notes
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For full guidance about this field, please refer to the HESA specification.
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Where a student may be in possession of multiple SSNs from different loan providers, the SSN returned in this field should be the one relating to the loan made for the payment of tuition fees.
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It is not expected that the same SSN will appear in multiple instances unless it is held by a student who has changed course.