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We emailed the following Data Futures programme update on 31 March to all Accountable Officers / Heads of provider and Senior contacts. If you have any feedback or queries, please contact [email protected]. 

Data Futures March 2023 programme update

We are writing to provide a Data Futures programme update and requirements for the 2022/23 collection. 

The Data Futures programme is pleased to announce the HESA Data Platform (HDP) is now live and open for providers to submit data. The HDP launch marks a technological milestone in our sector-wide transformation programme for higher education (HE) data. 

Jisc has been the Data Futures technical delivery partner since March 2020 and HESA merged with Jisc in October 2022. 

The HESA Data Platform includes:

Find out about the latest training and how we're developing our training programme 

The 22056 Student record will be the first data collection live on the HESA Data Platform (HDP). 

January 2023 marked one year since the reignition of the HE-BCI major review. Over the past 12 months we have worked to define the shape of the future data requirements for Knowledge Exchange.

What do we know about graduates and their chosen career paths? And how can we use data to help graduates and future students? These questions are at the heart of the Graduate Outcomes survey. 

On Tuesday 28 February 2023 we published two new data tables showing where UK domiciled students lived before starting higher education, broken down by Local Area/Unitary Authority (LAUA).

Blog post exploring definitions of higher education (HE) and HE qualifications, to provide a rationale for the definition the College HE project will adopt.

The number of academic staff employed at UK higher education providers grew by 4% in 2021/22, matching the 4% rise in the number of students. The number of EU nationality academic staff fell by 1% while the number of non-EU nationality staff grew by 9%.

HESA researchers explore whether family composition may be a factor that explains why some students respond with ‘I don’t know’ when asked about the qualifications attained by their parents in the UCAS form.