News and insight

An update on the Data Futures programme, as it enters a more critical phase of its development. 

The HESA Liaison team support over 430 higher education providers with their statutory data submissions to HESA. A dedicated team of 15 staff provides support and guidance on the full suite of HESA data streams, associated processes and systems. 

For HE providers who submitted environmental information scope 1 and 2 carbon emissions have fallen by 27% over the last five years.

Graduate activity is one of the core concepts for the Graduate Outcomes so how we classify activities is important in our analysis and publication of Graduate Outcomes data. 

Detailed open data tables and charts from the 2018/19 Graduate Outcomes survey

This year's Graduate Outcomes data reflects the circumstances under which it was collected. Data was collected in a year in which unemployment rates rose across society and most travel was prohibited. This insight brief is part of our range of support to help users contextualise this year’s data.

Annual first release of graduate outcomes data for 2018/19.

  Open data licence: CC-BY-4.0

Results of the second annual Graduate Outcomes survey show that 56% of 2018/19 graduates were in full-time employment.

Total income for UK HE providers whose financial year matched the 2019/20 academic year was £40.8 billion with expenditure of £37.3 billion.

HESA's Data and Innovation team explain the reasons behind some of the questions in the Graduate Outcomes survey.