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News and blogs
Producing UK HE Finance data – new top lines, same bottom line
Head of Policy & DevelopmentDan Cook explains the changes behind the forthcoming release of Finance record Open Data.
"The true method of knowledge is experiment" - why Graduate Outcomes statistics are experimental
Official Statistics ManagerAs HESA is preparing the first set of Graduate Outcomes data for publication from late April, we are sharing some key points about the nature of the statistics being released.
Research shows decline in ‘graduate premium’ less pronounced for 1st and 2:1 degrees
Joint research from HESA and the Department of Economics at Warwick University finds graduates with a first or upper second class degree earn more, relative to non-graduates, than their peers with lower class degrees.
Higher Education Staff Data – open data release
Open data tables of staff demographic and contract characteristics show 31% of academic staff were of non-UK nationality in 2018/19.