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> The Brookes situation of having several identifiers for one student must
> be common, but  I presume that the HESA identifier can pull together the
> separate records to form a single institutional transcript.
>
> In discussing objects like these it may well be useful to refer to the
> HESA manuals.   Because all HEIs must complete HESA returns, all of their
> student records are likely to be influenced by its definitions.  Manuals
> mapping HESA and ISR are also available.
> http://www.hesa.ac.uk/Manuals/srcm.htm
>
> The best person to confirm 'what HEIs do now' will be a student record
> officer and we might think how we should pass on questions to Dennis
> Barrington Light and the reference group he has formed in SROC for their
> views, for example about how 'validation' and 'franchise' arrangements
> work in practice.
>
> At the end of the day we are not required to solve the (many) problems
> with the content of the transcript but to propose generic standards which
> will facilitate different but valid approaches, so we need to map current
> practice, confirm our framework will cope and refer on specific issues
> about content to the other bodies responsible.
>
> I have circulated the early draft providing loose definitions of the
> transcript fields to Paul and will hope to circulate them more generally
> next week.
>
> Peter
>