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The end of NewDLHE: Introducing Graduate Outcomes
Today marks the end of our NewDLHE review, and the start of our implementation of the Graduate Outcomes collection. Graduate Outcomes will enable us to collect meaningful, relevant and robust data, while realising efficiencies across the higher education sector.
BlogIncreasing insights and the future of HESA’s destinations data
This summer sees a wealth of valuable data released on the destinations of graduates. This data provides real evidence about the employability and progression of students at a time of increasing uncertainty. This blog provides an overview of what data is being released and how you can get the most from it.
BlogFarewell to JACS, and hello to HECoS
We have developed a new subject coding system to replace JACS. HECoS (the Higher Education Classification of Subjects) is more flexible than JACS, and so is better able to capture the diverse and dynamic nature of modern HE provision.
BlogExpenditure in higher education 2015/16
Finances of Higher Education Providers 2015/16 publication released.
HESA's publication summarising the finances of HE providers reveals the breakdown of the sector's £33.0 billion expenditure in 2015/16. Academic departments accounted for £12.3 billion of spending - 37% of total expenditure. Medicine, dentistry and health departments accounted for nearly a quarter of this, with £2.9 billion spend on these departments.
Data Futures in the Data Present: a planner’s perspective
Guest blogger Dr Garrick Fincham offers a planner's perspective on the challenges facing providers in the Data Futures programme.
BlogTowards implementation: An update on our review of graduate outcomes data
The final round of consultation as part of our NewDLHE review of graduate outcomes data has now closed, and we have been given a broad mandate to proceed to implement our model.
Blog3,890 new graduate start-ups in 2015/16
Results of the HE Business and Community Interaction (HEBCI) Survey for 2015/16, published online free of charge, show that 3,890 graduates start-ups were formed in 2015/16, and that active HE provider spin-offs and start-ups employed over 44,000 people. HE providers earned £1.7 billion from intellectual property, consultancy contracts, CPD courses, regeneration and development programmes, and facilities and equipment related services.
HE Business and Community Interaction Survey 2015/16
Our Higher Education Business and Community Interaction publication provides a detailed picture of interactions between UK higher education providers and businesses and the wider community. Such interactions include spin offs and start-up companies, intellectual property, consultancy, CPD, public engagement, and more.
Open data licence: CC-BY-4.0Experimental Statistics: Widening participation and non-continuation rates
This UK Performance Indicator Experimental Statistics release covers widening participation and non-continuation rates at publicly funded HE providers and alternative providers.
Non-continuation rates summary: UK Performance Indicators 2015/16
This UK Performance Indicators release focuses on non-continuation rates for UK domiciled students.
Open data licence: CC-BY-4.0