UCAS personal identifier: Field
Definition
The learner's UCAS Personal Identifier, issued by UCAS.
Reason Required
Required by the OfS to identify students who entered a current engagement through UCAS and to facilitate linking between UCAS and HESA records.
Schema Definitions
- XML Entity Name
- UCASPERID
- Field Length
- 10
- Data type
- RestrictedString
- Minimum occurrences
- 0
- Maximum occurrences
- 1
- Part of
- LearnerHE
Collection Requirements
- Learners entering through UCAS
Valid Entries
Must contain a value in the range 0000000001 to 9999999999
Pattern
Notes
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Providers should return this for all students who entered their engagement via a UCAS scheme and who have been issued a UCAS Personal Identifier.
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This UCAS Personal Identifier together with the UCAS Application Code (UCASAPPID) forms the UCAS Application identifier.
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The UCAS Personal Identifier is sometimes presented using hyphens between characters 3 and 4 and between characters 6 and 7. These hyphens are not to be included in this field.
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Leading zeros must be added where required to make up the field character length. For example a value of 123456 will need to be recorded as 0000123456.