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Finances of Higher Education Institutions 2010/11 shows that students' higher education tuition fees contributed £8.3 billion to the income of UK HE institutions. £2.9 billion of this income came from non-EU domicile students' tuition fees.

The chart below shows, for each country of the UK, the proportion of tuition fee income from different kinds of students. The differing profiles of each country reflect, among other things, the different fee regimes in each administration. The chart is taken from the online introduction to Finances of Higher Education Institutions 2010/11 and based on data from Table F.

Indicators for Widening Participation and Non-continuation are published today on the HESA website.

HE Finance Plus 2010/11 shows that the total income of higher education institutions (HEIs) last year was £27.6 billion. Funding bodies provided £8.9 billion of this income, while tuition fees and education contracts contributed £9.0 billion.

Staff in Higher Education Institutions 2010/11 shows that there were 381,790 staff employed at UK Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) on 1 December 2010. Academic staff made up 47.5% of all staff.

Students in Higher Education Institutions 2010/11 shows that there were 2,501,295 students in higher education in the UK in 2010/11. Of these 2,073,070 (82.9%) were UK domicile students, 130,120 (5.2%) were from other EU member countries and 298,110 (11.9%) were from non-EU countries.

Consultation phase begins with landscape.hesa.ac.uk website launch 

Delivering the Politeia Winter Address yesterday, Universities and Science Minister David Willetts highlighted the Information Landscape project as a significant strand in the commitment to easing burdens on the HE sector.

This is the first release of data from the 2010/11 HESA Staff record.

On 1 December 2010 there were 381,790 staff employed in the HE sector, showing a decrease of 1.5% from 1 December 2009. 181,185 (47.5%) were academic professionals compared to 181,595 (46.9%) in 2009.

This Statistical First Release (SFR) has been produced by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) in collaboration with statisticians from the UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), the Welsh Government (WG), the Scottish Government (SG) and the Department for Employment and Learning Northern Ireland (DEL(NI)). It has been released according to the arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority. It provides details of student enrolments and qualifications obtained by higher education (HE) students at HE institutions (HEIs) in the United Kingdom (UK) for the academic year 2010/11.

Course is one of the most widely used words in Higher Education - by students, higher education providers, policy-makers and funders - and as the funding and structures of Higher Education change, there is an increasing demand for information at the level of individual courses.

Higher education is an increasingly global enterprise and UK universities need to address international competition for business, research funding and students according to a report released by HESA today. The report, International Benchmarking in UK Higher Education, was commissioned as part of a HESA project Realising Business Benefits through the use of Benchmarking.