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Bespoke data service Individualised Staff Data Commonly requested Staff Data fields - 1994/95 to 2002/03

Bespoke data service First Destinations Data Commonly requested First Destinations Fields The information on this page relates to the First Destinations Supplement (FDS). The FDS survey was used between 1994/95 and 2001/02 to collect information on the activities of leavers from higher education.

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Other information Please find in the next few pages some other information relating to information provision.

Pivot table instructions Using HESA data in pivot tables All HESA pivot tables have been produced to be compatible with Excel versions 2003-2010. Please note, these instructions are based on data that has been produced in Excel 2010 (compatibility mode) Introduction Microsoft Excel PivotTables are a refinement of the normal ‘spreadsheet’ concept to include a data set which can be queried by the user. The spreadsheet acts as a front end for displaying the results of tabul...

Bespoke data service Finance Data Expenditure Sources of Income Funding Council Grants Funding council grants include those from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW), the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council (SHEFC), the Teacher Training Agency (TTA) and the Department of Education Northern Ireland (DENI). Higher education (HE) provision includes recurrent grants and capital grants as defined below in re...

Staff data The current HESA staff record was introduced for the 2003/04 academic year. It combines and replaces the three staff data streams that were collected previously.  The new HESA Staff Record covers all academic and non-academic staff who have a contract of employment with a higher education institution (HEI) in the UK. The information that follows relates specifically to the new HESA Staff Record. Data from the former Individualised Staff Record is still available fo...

Destinations data Destinations data provides information on the activites of students after gaining a qualification from a higher education institution (HEI). The data is collected through a survey carried out approximately six months after students leave a HEI. Destinations data is collected in addition to the student data outlined here. As a result, we can link destinations data to student data. From 2002/03 the survey is known as Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education (DLH...

Student Data Higher education (HE) students are those students on courses for which the level of instruction is above that of level 3 of the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) National Qualifications Framework (NQF) (e.g. courses at the level of Certificate of HE and above).

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