Description

A code, allocated by DEST, which uniquely identifies the student within the Higher Education Sector and remains constant from year to year

Details

Version: 1.0
First year: 2005
Last year: 2008
Field name: CHESSN
Element name: Commonwealth Higher Education Student Support Number (CHESSN)

Code format:

Data Type: Numeric
Units: Code (Numeric), left justified, with trailing blanks if needed
Width: 10

Classification

CODE MEANING
ZZZZZZZZZZ No CHESSN required
Any data Code assigned by higher education provider

Coding notes

​A student may make a number of separate course enrolments at a Higher Education Provider in the one year or over a number of years, and the CHESSN must be constant across courses and over time.

Where a student returns to a Provider to resume a course or to undertake a new course, the CHESSN must be the same as that used at the time of the student’s first enrolment at a Provider after 31 December 2004.

The CHESSN will only be used to allow eligibility to Commonwealth support to be facilitated and monitored.

Please refer to the Glossary for further information about terminology used in this document.

Input files

​Higher Education Student:

  • Unit of Study Completions (CU)
  • Student Enrolment (EN)
  • Student Load/Liability (LL)
  • Revised Student Load/Liability (RL)
  • OS-HELP (OS)
  • Revisions File (SR)
  • Past Course Completions (PS)
  • Commonwealth Assisted Student (DU)

Change History

Details of all versions of this data element can be found on its supporting information page.


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