Special Fee Indicator: Field
Definition
Records any special or non-standard fees.
Reason Required
To allow the identification of students subject to special fee regimes for funding and other analysis.
Schema Definitions
- XML Entity Name
- SPECFEE
- Field Length
- 1
- Data type
- xs:int
- Minimum occurrences
- 1
- Maximum occurrences
- 1
- Part of
- LearningDeliveryHE
Collection Requirements
- Collected for all aims
Attribute Codes
| Code | Title |
|---|---|
| 0 | Standard/Prescribed fee |
| 1 | Sandwich placement |
| 2 | Language year abroad and not full-year outgoing ERASMUS |
| 3 | Full-year outgoing ERASMUS |
| 4 | Final year of full-time course lasting less than 15 weeks |
| 5 | Final year of a full-time course lasting more than 14 weeks but less than 24 weeks |
| 9 | Other fee |
Notes
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For full guidance about this field, please refer to the HESA specification.
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Students following the same pattern of study on the same course will have the same SPECFEE.
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Institutions are not required to adjust this field to account for individual waived fees.
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Code 0 'Standard/Prescribed fee' refers to the standard variable fee charged by the institution.
For sandwich placements these are:
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An academic year: (i) during which any periods of full-time study are in aggregate less than 10 weeks; or (ii) if in respect of that academic year and any previous academic years of the course the aggregate of any one or more periods of attendance which are not periods of full-time study at the institution (disregarding intervening vacations) exceeds 30 weeks.
For language year abroad these are:
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An academic year: (i) during which any periods of full-time study at the institution in the United Kingdom are in aggregate less than 10 weeks; or (ii) if in respect of that academic year and any previous academic years of the course the aggregate of any one or more