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In the last five years at least 780 qualifiers from Agriculture and related subjects were in employment overseas six months after graduating.

HESA is pleased to present the annual official statistical overview of higher education in the United Kingdom (UK) for the year 2012/13. This is the latest edition in a series that was initiated by the then Department for Education in 1993. It is a National Statistics publication.

The publication aims to present a comprehensive set of statistical information about a range of aspects of the UK higher education sector.

The HESA publication Higher Education Statistics for the United Kingdom 2012/13 is released today. This National Statistics publication gives a statistical overview of higher education (HE) in the 2012/13 academic year including data from HESA and other statistics producers. Commentary, summary tables and charts are provided in the free online introduction.

HESA publication 'Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education Institutions 2012/13' released. The publication, released on Thursday 24 July 2014, provides extensive coverage of the 2012/13 DLHE survey.

Indicators for employment of leavers are published today on the HESA website.

The full tables show the indicators for every HE institution in the UK alongside their benchmark. Summary tables showing statistics for the whole UK can be found here.

This Statistical First Release (SFR) has been produced by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), in collaboration with statisticians from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), the Welsh Government (WG), the Scottish Government (SG) and the Department for Employment and Learning Northern Ireland (DEL(NI)). It has been released according to the arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority. The SFR provides details of the destinations of UK and other European Union domiciled leavers from higher education (HE) who obtained qualifications in higher education institutions (HEIs) in the United Kingdom (UK), during the academic year 2012/13. The data presented draws on the 2012/13 Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education (DLHE) survey and presents time series analysis relating to 2011/12 when the revised DLHE survey was introduced.

HESA publication 'Finances of Higher Education Institutions 2012/13' released today.

Finances of Higher Education Institutions 2012/13 shows that UK HE institutions (HEIs) spent £2.4 billion on buildings and £0.7 billion on equipment in 2012/13, giving a total capital expenditure of £3.1 billion.

Indicators for Widening Participation and Non-continuation are published today on the HESA website.

The HE Business and Community Interaction (HE-BCI) Survey is completed by all publicly funded UK Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and the results show the extent to which HEIs are embedded in the economy and communities of the UK. The HE-BCI publication, released by HESA today, displays the full survey results for every UK HEI. This release provides the headline results for the UK and for each devolved administration.

The survey results show the number of new and on-going spin-off companies associated with UK HEIs. 126 spin-offs were started with some HEI ownership in 2012/13 and over 3,500 graduate start-up companies were formed. In 2012/13 active spin-off companies employed nearly 39,000 people (FTE).

HE Finance Plus 2012/13 shows that the total income of higher education institutions (HEIs) in 2012/13 was £29.1 billion. Funding bodies provided £7.0 billion of this income, while tuition fees and education contracts contributed £11.7 billion.