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  • Transforming data quality assurance: An introduction for providers

    Sue Deeley

    Head of Data Quality Assurance

    HESA takes pride in ensuring that the data it collects is accurate and robust.

    Our data quality assurance procedures exist to interrogate data submitted to identify potential anomalies and offer providers the opportunity to improve the quality of their data. Our shared goal is for data that is fit for purpose.

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  • How do we maintain public trust in data innovation?

    Hetan Shah

    Executive Director of the Royal Statistical Society

    The Royal Statistical Society has been in the data game for over 180 years. We are now clearly in a period of considerable public and political interest in data with considerable hype and expectations placed on, for example, ‘big data’ and ‘data science’.

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  • Don't believe everything you read in the papers: Geography probably won't leave you unemployed

    Press Officer

    An article circulated in several local newspapers on Monday 16 May 2016 claimed to show the "top 20 least employable degrees". The article claims that HESA is the source of this list and has since been copied and shared widely. Here's the truth...

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  • HESA launches consultation on measuring graduate outcomes

    Press Officer

    As part of our fundamental review of destination and outcomes data for graduates from Higher Education, we are today launching a consultation to help determine what should replace the current DLHE (Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education) survey.

  • Expenditure of HE providers by activity 2014/15

    Press Officer

    Finances of Higher Education Providers 2014/15 shows that UK HE providers had a total expenditure of £31.2 billion in 2014/15. £11.8bn (38.0% of the total) was spent through academic departments. Medicine, dentistry and health departments accounted for 8.7% of total expenditure.

  • HMRC data brings some brawn, but HESA data is the brains of the operation

    Dan Cook

    Dan Cook

    Deputy Director, Data & Innovation

    Today’s essential reading (on the train, in my case) is the IFS report authored by Anna Vignoles of Cambridge and Neil Shephard of Harvard. This is the second report from a landmark research project that uses HMRC tax data, SLC loans data, and HESA Student data to find out about some of the factors that affect graduate earnings.

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  • SROC Conference 2016

    Alison Berry

    Alison Berry

    Director of Statutory Operations

    This week a group of staff from across HESA attended the SROC conference at Loughborough University, both as delegates and presenters. It was a great pleasure to present on the latest developments with Heidi Plus, on how to use HESA data, and on strategic and operational changes happening at HESA.

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  • Over 4,000 new graduate start-ups in 2014/15

    Press Officer

    The survey results show the number of new and on-going spin-off companies associated with UK HE providers. 129 spin-offs were started with some provider ownership in 2014/15. 4,160 graduate start-up companies and 138 social enterprises were formed

  • UK Performance Indicators in Higher Education 2014/15: Non-continuation rates

    Press Officer

    The full tables show the national non-continuation rates and indicators for every publicly funded HE provider in the UK alongside their benchmark.

    Further tables show the statistics for entrants to part-time and other undergraduate courses.

  • Agencies collaborate to provide better service for UK higher education

    Press Officer

    Three of the UK's leading higher education agencies have announced plans to explore increased collaboration and cost sharing through a new partnership to be known as the 'M5 Group'.

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