Simon,
Thank you for bringing this to our attention.
A similar thing happened with the DFES. When they updated the
transfer/withdrawal etc. forms a year or two ago they were asking us to
fill in the ART number. I queried it with them and subsequently they
changed the forms and now they ask for ART or SSN number.
Kati
Kati Thomas
Senior Registry Officer, Student Records
Academic Registry
Coventry University, Priory Street, Coventry, CV1 5FB
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Simon Croll
Sent: 01 September 2005 10:22
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Subject: Support Notification Changes
Hi all,
Not sure if anyone has noticed yet but, so far, all the 2005/6 Student
Finance Direct support notification forms we have received have the ART
ID
rather than the student support number as the barcode in the top
left-hand
corner.
I suspect that this will affect institutions where they are scanning the
barcodes into a spreadsheet or database in order to generate a SSAC file
rather than using the SSAR file. The format of the SSAC file returned
requires the SSN rather than the ART ID.
I have reported this to the student loan company who state this is an
error
and will not be repeated. They couldn't advise me on how many have been
issued in this way.
I thought that I would bring this to your attention.
Many thanks,
Simon
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Simon Croll
Assistant Registrar
Enrolment and Systems
(Student Registry and Planning Office)
University of Bradford
Richmond Road
Bradford
BD7 1DP
Tel: +44 (0)1274 236540
Fax: +44 (0)1274 235740
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