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The Data Futures Programme Board, made up of HESA, Jisc, Statutory Customer and provider representatives, has agreed that the Data Futures transition year of 2022/23 will be an annual collection, taking place during the summer of 2023. 

HESA's Data and Innovation team use Census statistics to assess the quality of HESA's parental education and socio-economic classification data.

Detailed release of staff data reveals that education departments have the highest proportions of female academics, with engineering and technology having the lowest proportion.

6.7% of young UK full-time first degree entrants in 2018/19 did not continue past their first year. 11.1% were projected to leave higher education without a qualification. 

90.1% of young UK full-time first degree entrants came from state schools – a proportion that has remained almost unchanged for the last five years.

With the prospect of our traditional live training delivery fading away, we need a new, fresh approach to ensure we provide the HE sector with the highest quality training, but in the most flexible way. To achieve that, we have made a few changes to improve the accessibility and quality of our products.

Detailed open data released by HESA reveals that over a quarter of UK domicile students in higher education are from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds.

Annual first release of student enrolment and qualifications data for 2019/20.

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The first release of HESA student data for the 2019/20 academic year shows an increase in overall student numbers with most of the growth due to non-UK domiciled entrants.  

First release of staff data for 2019/20 covering demographic and contract characteristics of staff at UK higher education providers.

  Open data licence: CC-BY-4.0