News and insight

Following two years of review, design, and consultation, we are today publishing the operational design for Graduate Outcomes, our new national survey that will capture vital information on the activities and views of graduates.

Tej Nathwani, Senior Statistical Analyst at HESA, considers the story behind the financial benefits of a first degree in economics from the responses to the latest Longitudinal Destination of Leavers survey. The breadth of data available enables a more detailed investigation to be made into the link between subject of study and earnings.

Neil Richards, one of HESA’s data visualisation experts, has had work selected for a prestigious project for the United Nations.

A 2016 public consultation strongly supported HESA’s aim to publish non-personal and non-commercially-sensitive data as open data by 2021. One of HESA’s open data champions, Izzy Budd, outlines the next milestone in the transformation of HESA's publications and specifically the impact on the Higher Education Statistics for the UK publication.

HESA’s bid to be the designated body for English higher education information receives support from representatives of universities, students and graduate recruiters

The tables in this release provide data on staff with academic teaching qualifications at HE providers in England 2014/15 to 2015/16

Programme Director Rob Phillpotts announces the launch of the HESA Student record Coding manual (Data Futures) and the implications for the transition year. 

HESA and GMC have agreed to coordinate the collection of information about the education of medical students in order to reduce the workload of universities.

To mark the release of a draft specification for the collection of contact details for Graduate Outcomes, two of our Heads of Software Development reflect on how they're approaching the task of building Graduate Outcomes.

“Data experts will find that there is a lot to excite them at the Data Matters conference,” says Marieke Guy, Data Analyst in the QAA Evaluation and Analytics Team, and who is leading the workshop Trendspotting; helping you to make sense of large information sources at the one-day event on 3 November 2017.