Hi all,

 

Just wanted to check you were aware of the EDUBASE public portal which enables you to drill down to the details on any of the current ‘D’ codes from the PREVINST field. This can be found here: http://www.education.gov.uk/edubase/home.xhtml

 

There is only basic information on this page but you can subscribe for free and get a much richer source of data.

 

Unfortunately, this is only available for current ‘D’ codes so historic ‘D’ codes or any ‘U’ codes will still require a more google based approach.

 

Hope that proves useful!

 

James

 

 

 

Hi Elaine,

 

I’m struggling with this very issue currently. There isn’t a quick way of doing this unfortunately. We’ve recently purchased a large dataset from HESA with previous institution and what we’ve done is to concentrate on this institutions for which data relates to. In this case, we’re looking only at London-domiciled students and it’s reduced the list from 18k to almost 7k.  To obtain the correct institution name, we’ve separated the code and mapped it against a reference table extracted from a DfES file, which contains the correct name but also classifies the institution in terms of FE college, 6^th form college, community school, etc.  This has probably reduced the 7k by more than a half and the rest entails endless Google searches! The issue is that the advent of academies means that a large number of institutions have recently changed their name, some of which bear no relation to the name of the previous institution!!

 

Hope this helps

 

Regards

 

Gary

 

 

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Dear All,

 

Do you know of anyone within your organisation who has successfully come up with a consistent list of previous institution data that they’d be happy to share?

 

I’ve spent several days on this but am struggling to come up with a way without manually trawling through around 19,000 records!

 

You’ll see the problem if I highlight a small subset, showing the PREVINST code as held by HESA and the provided establishment name;

 

D3306092	Abbey College (this one’s in Birmingham)
D2136048	Abbey College (this one’s the same as Abbey College, London)
D8856026	Abbey College (this one and the next are in Worcestershire)
D9186103	Abbey College
D8736049	Abbey College Cambridge (this is the same as U16664 but was supplied without the comma)
D3526044	Abbey College
U16664	Abbey College, Cambridge
U11733	Abbey College, London
U15779	Abbey College, Malvern
U16307	Abbey College, Manchester
U11214	Abbey College, Ramsey
D8734603	Abbey College, Ramsey
U89420	Abbey Community College, Co Roscommon
U89146	Abbey Community College, Waterford
U89213	Abbey Community College, Wicklow
D9066018	Abbey Gate College
U10291	Abbey Gate College
D8756060	Abbey Gate College (this one and the one below are the same place but have different D codes)
D8966018	Abbey Gate College

 

I’d like to be able to have a list that has a consistent establishment name or some way of identifying each establishment uniquely, to identify where our students come from.

 

With best wishes,

 

Elaine Mallion

Planning & Performance Reporting Analyst

 

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