FEW specification

Highest Teaching Qualification: Field

Definition

The highest teaching qualification held by the member of staff.

Reason Required

To understand the highest teaching qualification held by teaching staff and enable like for like analysis of the FE Workforce collection data.

To support:

  • modelling future policy initiatives

  • targeting areas for recruitment intervention.

Schema Definitions

XML Entity Name
HighestTeachingQualification
Field Length
2
Data type
xs:int
Minimum occurrences
1
Maximum occurrences
1
Part of
TeacherData

Collection Requirements

  • Collected for those staff members that have a teaching role.

Attribute Codes

Code Title
3 Level 3
4 Level 4
5 Level 5
6 Level 6
7 Level 7
8 Level 8
10 Other
11 None
13 None, but working towards a teacher training qualification

Notes

Please see section Use of the 'Not known' answer to understand the implications of providing a 'Not known' answer.