A unique identifier for every student in the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) system.

The number is allocated to a student when they first commence a higher education course of study, and this transfers with them to each Higher Education Institution they subsequently attend.

Every NHS EMPLOYEE who has attended a course at a higher education institution, whether as an EMPLOYEE of the NHS or not, will have a EMPLOYEE HESA STUDENT NUMBER.

This attribute is also known by these names:

Context	Alias
plural	EMPLOYEE HESA STUDENT NUMBERS