News and insight

First release of staff data for 2018/19 covering demographic and contract characteristics of staff at UK higher education providers.

  Open data licence: CC-BY-4.0

The 5 May 2020 Data Matters conference in London has been cancelled.

Invoices for HESA subscription fees have been submitted to UK higher education providers. New content on the HESA website explains how our subscription fees are calculated.

HESA has released information regarding its new subscription model for higher education providers, and a refreshed strategy, reflecting changes to the regulation of HE.

We have reached an important milestone on Graduate Outcomes – the new model and survey has turned one year old! Here we've provided an update, including the 2017/18 collection level response rates by target group.

Since its inception, the ambition of the Data Futures programme has always been to improve the way we collect, process and disseminate data in line with an evolving, transforming HE sector. With this understanding we are extending our design phase, continuing to work closely with Statutory Customers, UUK, GuildHE, IHE, UCISA, ARC, AHUA, HESPA, SROC, software suppliers and providers through our Programme and Sponsoring Board, Provider forum and directly.

Joint research from HESA and the Department of Economics at Warwick University found graduates born in 1990 earned 11% more than non-graduates at age 26, compared to the 19% graduate premium enjoyed by graduates born in 1970.

The AP Student record has changed its name to the Student Alternative record.

Our data analytics team has joined Jisc to form a new data analytics directorate offering enhanced data analytics for the sector.

Project mandate and timeline published for major review of the Higher Education – Business and Community Interaction (HE-BCI) data collection.