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  • Overview of the academic year 2014/15

    Press Officer

    Headline statistics: 2,266,075 HE students at HE providers, plus 189,635 HE students at FE colleges and 50,245 on designated courses at Alternative Providers; 56% of HE students are female; 45% of students studied science subjects. The most popular subject area was business & administrative studies which was studied by 14% of students.

  • What 2014/15 graduates did next

    Press Officer

    76% of all survey respondents were in employment. Of these employed leavers 59% were on permanent or open-ended contracts while 25% were on fixed-term contracts. 4% of employed leavers were self-employed, 3% were on zero-hours contracts, 2% on internships, and 1% were starting up their own business.

  • The art of collaboration to provide a better service for UK higher education

    The M5 Group

    HESA, Jisc, QAA

    As the UK higher education system goes through its biggest overhaul in 20 years, together with cost cutting targets becoming the norm, partnerships and collaborations are more important than ever before.

    Blog
  • Building a future for graduate destinations

    Rachel Hewitt

    Rachel Hewitt

    Implementation Manager - Graduate Outcomes

    In the words of Mary Stuart, Vice Chancellor at the University of Lincoln: ‘Behind every data point in HE data is an individual graduate’. This was the central message behind all the discussions at Wonkhe and HESA’s collaborative event on the future of DLHE, held on 4 July.

    Blog
  • UK Performance Indicators in Higher Education 2014/15: Employment of leavers

    Press Officer

    The statistics are based on the Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education (DLHE) survey which asked leavers from higher education in 2014/15 what they were doing six months after graduation.

    Overall, 93.9% of UK domicile full-time first degree leavers were in employment and/or further study six months after graduating.

  • Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education in the United Kingdom for the academic year 2014/15

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    Statistical First Release

    This SFR provides details of the destinations of UK and other European Union domiciled leavers from higher education (HE) who obtained qualifications in HEPs in the UK, during the academic year 2014/15. The data presented draws on the 2014/15 Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education (DLHE) survey and presents time series analysis relating back to 2011/12 when the revised DLHE survey was introduced.

  • Tariff aggregation methodologies: A beginners' guide

    Mark Jones

    Data Specification Manager

    Tariff. A word that conjures up, for many, a nightmarish image of complicated scoring algorithms and esoteric qualifications. It’s not exactly great material for a blog post. HESA has, however, been involved in a great deal of tariff-related activity of late, and we felt it was time we shared some of that with you. But first, let’s back up a bit.

    Blog
  • Appreciating alternative providers

    Adam van Coevorden

    Adam van Coevorden

    Head of Operations & Performance

    The 2014/15 academic year saw the first compulsory submission of individualised student data by 63 alternative providers of higher education.

    These providers do not receive direct public funding, but have had undergraduate courses designated by the government to enable their students to access public funding. 

    Blog
  • HESA consults on open data plans

    Press Officer

    We are planning to release higher education data as open data that anyone can access, use and share. We are consulting on these plans to gather the views of data users, HE providers who provide data to use, and anyone else with an interest in HE data.

  • Higher education student enrolments and qualifications obtained on undergraduate designated courses at alternative providers in England 2014/15

    Statistical First Release

    The AP SFR provides details of undergraduate student enrolments and qualifications obtained on designated courses by HE students at APs in England for the academic year 2014/15 who returned data to HESA. The APs who returned data to HESA in 2014/15 were large providers who offered HE courses within the AP sector. The AP SFR includes all undergraduate HE students enrolled on designated courses at these APs irrespective of whether the student was in receipt of SLC funding.

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