The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) produce these statistics on student enrolments and qualifications obtained by higher education (HE) students at HE providers in the UK.
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Earlier higher education student statistics bulletins are available on the https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/statistical-first-releases?date_filter%5Bvalue%5D%5Byear%5D=&topic%5B%5D=5" class="govuk-link">HESA website.
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This bulletin is the annual first release of HESA student data. It draws upon data from the revised student data collection (delivered by the Data Futures programme) and marks the second year of reporting using the new data model. Once again, a comprehensive quality assessment has been undertaken on the dataset and this is detailed in our accompanying student data quality report. A detailed list of findings is available in the data quality and insights resource, which is also accompanied by provider specific data notes. The coverage of data is detailed in the notes section of this release. In summary, we cover data about higher education students and qualifiers from the following types of providers within the UK: -Higher education (HE) providers in England registered with the Office for Students (OfS) in the Approved (fee cap) or Approved categories; -Publicly funded HE providers in Northern Ireland and Scotland; and -Providers in Wales that are funded directly for higher education provision by Medr and providers in Wales that return data to HESA about specifically designated courses. This bulletin also includes information from the HESA Aggregate Offshore record which can be seen in Figure 12. This separate record counts students studying wholly outside the UK who are either registered with the reporting HE provider or who are studying for an award of the reporting HE provider.
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This bulletin provides details of staff employment at UK higher education (HE) providers on 1 December 2023. Detailed analysis of the HESA staff record is available in the Higher Education Staff Open Data. This bulletin has been produced by Jisc in collaboration with statisticians from the Department for Education, the Office for Students, the Welsh Government, the Scottish Government and the Department for the Economy Northern Ireland. It has been released according to the arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority.
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Estimates of suicides among higher education students by sex, age group, ethnicity, type of study, and student term time accommodation between the academic years ending 2017 and 2023. Based on mortality records linked to Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) student records. These are official statistics in development.
Last update: 21 September 2023 Next update: July 2024 (Provisional) Source: Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) Staff Record. The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) collect data on students, staff and resources of higher education institutions (HEIs) in the UK. Further information about HESA and their data collections, including some online tables, can be found on their website www.hesa.ac.uk
This dataset provides population estimates for the local authorities in Wales, the English regions and the UK countries for the period from 1991 onwards by sex and single year of age, together with some aggregated age groups. It should be noted that for mid-2020 there are some definitional changes (particularly affecting the migration components) compared with mid-2019 population estimates data and it is advised users read the Quality and Methodology Information section on the Office for National Statistics website. For Wales, England, and Northern Ireland, the mid-2021 population estimates are the first population estimates to be based on the 2021 censuses for these countries. For Scotland, the census was moved to 2022. The mid-2022 population estimates are the first population estimates to be based on the 2022 Census for Scotland. Internal migration estimates for mid-2023 have been produced using a different method to previous years, following a change to the variables available in the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) data. This material is Crown Copyright and may be re-used (not including logos) free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government Licence.
This release includes more detail on the higher education workforce than was published in the staff statistics bulletin on 17th January 2023.
Understanding Society, (the UK Household Longitudinal Study), which began in 2009, is conducted by the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex and the survey research organisations Verian Group (formerly Kantar Public) and NatCen. It builds on and incorporates, the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), which began in 1991.
The Understanding Society Innovation Panel is designed for experimental and methodological research relevant to longitudinal surveys. As far as practical its design, content, and data collection procedures are similar to the main stage Understanding Society survey. It is a multi-topic household survey representative of the population of Great Britain. Data collection takes place annually using computer assisted personal interviewing (CAPI), web surveys and telephone interviewing (CATI) to a small extent.
For details of the main Understanding Society study, please see study number 6614.
The Understanding Society: Innovation Panel, Special Licence Access, Higher Education Codes dataset contains higher education institution identification codes for Waves 13 onwards. For a full description of the variables available in this dataset please refer to the Understanding Society: Innovation Panel Higher Education Codes User Guide.
The details in this dataset can be linked to the main Understanding Society datasets SN 6849 (End User Licence), SN 7083 (Special Licence) and SN 7332 (Secure Access) using the crosswave personal identifier pidp. The institution identifiers in the data files can be used to link to publicly available datasets published by HESA and elsewhere.
These data have more restrictive access conditions than those available under the standard End User Licence (see 'Access' section below). Those users who wish to make an application for these data should contact the Help Desk for further details.
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For the second edition (September 2025), data for Wave 17 was deposited and the documentation updated accordingly.
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The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) produce these statistics on student enrolments and qualifications obtained by higher education (HE) students at HE providers in the UK.
Information is available on:
Earlier higher education student statistics bulletins are available on the https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/statistical-first-releases?date_filter%5Bvalue%5D%5Byear%5D=&topic%5B%5D=5" class="govuk-link">HESA website.