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Higher Education Statistics Agency

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Higher Education Statistics Agency
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The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) was the official agency for the collection, analysis and dissemination of quantitative information about higher education in the United Kingdom. HESA became a directorate of Jisc after a merger in 2022.

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HESA was set up by agreement between the relevant government departments, the higher education funding councils and the universities and colleges in 1993, following the White Paper "Higher Education: a new framework", which called for more coherence in HE statistics, and the Further and Higher Education Act 1992, which established an integrated higher education system throughout the United Kingdom. In 2018 HESA became the Designated Data Body for higher education in England under the Higher Education and Research Act 2017, with designation passing to Jisc after the 2022 merger.

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Data collections

HESA collected data from all publicly funded higher education institutions (HEIs) in the UK as well as a small number of private providers. The annual data collection streams were:

  • Student data collection  information about students, courses and qualifications at HEIs
  • AP Student data collection  information about students, courses and qualifications at Alternative Providers of higher education
  • Staff data collection  information about staff employed by HEIs
  • Finance record  income and expenditure of HEIs
  • Graduate Outcomes  survey of graduate activities 15 months after leaving higher education
  • Aggregate offshore record  count of students studying wholly overseas for UK HE qualifications
  • HE Business and Community Interaction survey  information about interactions between HEIs and business and the wider community
  • Estates management record  buildings, estates and environmental information about HEIs
  • Initial Teacher Training (ITT) record
  • Unistats collection
  • Provider Profile collection
  • Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education  survey of graduate activities six months after leaving HE (2002/03 to 2016/17)
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Statistical outputs

HESA published statistics and analyses based on the data it collects:

  • Statistical Bulletins  Official Statistics outputs summarising each data stream
  • Annual open data releases  detailed statistical tables
  • Performance Indicators  comparative data on the performance of HEIs in widening participation, student retention, learning and teaching outcomes, research output and employment of graduates

Jisc processes HESA data to provide data extracts for research and publication by external users such as league tables of British universities.

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