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Line 1: The '''Joint Academic Coding System''' (JACS) system is used by the [[Higher Education Statistics Agency]] (HESA) and the [[Universities and Colleges Admissions Service]] (UCAS) in the [[United Kingdom]] to classify academic subjects. It is due to be replaced by the Higher Education ~~Coding~~Classification ~~System~~of Subjects (HECoS) and the Common Aggregation Hierarchy (CAH) for the 2019/20 academic year.<ref name=farewell>{{cite web\|url=https://www.hesa.ac.uk/blog/28-04-2017/farewell-jacs-and-hello-hecos\|title=Farewell to JACS, and hello to HECoS\|publisher=HESA\|date=27 April 2017\|accessdate=10 May 2017}}</ref> A JACS code for a single subject consists of a letter and three numbers. The letter represents the broad subject classification, e.g. F for physical sciences. The first number represents the principal subject area, e.g. F3 for physics, and subsequent numbers represent further details, similar to the [[Dewey Decimal Classification\|Dewey Decimal System]]. The principal subject of physics, for example, is broken into 19 detailed subjects, represented by a letter plus three numbers: e.g., F300 represents physics, F330 environmental physics and F331 atmospheric physics.

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