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Better help for crsid field, compulsory for postgrads

Dr Catherine Pitt requested to merge require_crsids_for_postgrads into main

This year we have had several postgrads fail to enter their CRSID on their registration form. This was missed when the forms were imported which led to several duplicate entries in the database requiring tedious manual merging.

I believe all postgrads have a CRSID at the point they register with us, as they're issued when they apply to Cambridge, so there's no reason we should not make it compulsory to enter it. Other categories may not have CRSIDs at the point of registration and so the field must remain optional for them. This change makes the CRSID field compulsory for postgraduates, including DTC postgraduates.

The change includes more assistance with putting the right thing into the CRSID field. The field now always has a placeholder value that matches the one used by Raven, and for the postgraduates an explanation that the CRSID is the thing before @cam.ac.uk in their email address. I have not added that explanation for other categories as they won't necessarily have a Cambridge email address.

Closes #71 (closed)

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