Higher Education Statistical Agency (HESA)
www.hesa.ac.uk
In its Public Information section, HESA contains statistics relating to students, staff, first destinations and university finance. Statistics for English per se are not available, being included in a broader humanitiescategory. There is a facility called HOLIS to enable the comparison of one institution with others selected by the user and Management Information tables (accessible only from the ac.uk domain) which contain tables for research income, staff and student FTEs.
Higher Education Funding Council for England
www.hefce.ac.uk/Pubs/
Many HEFCE reports and circulars are statistical in nature. These pages list the publications available by year. The Performance Indicator tables are also available at: www.hefce.ac.uk/Learning/perfind/2002/
The Times Higher Education Supplement (THES)
www.thes.co.uk/Statistics
The THES publishes a range of statistics, often drawn from primary sources. A subscription to the THES is required to access this data. The current highlights include for example:
Vice-chancellors' pay 2001-2002
HEFCE performance indicators 1999-2001
The shape of further education 2001
Senior university staff pay 2002
Higher education trends 2002
Teacher Training Agency trends 2002
University entry standards 2000
University league tables 2002
UCAS
http://www.ucas.com/figures/archive/archive.html
The UCAS archive contains data on HE applicants going back to 1994 entry. Both simple and more sophisticated interfaces are provided. Categories include: subject of study, age distribution, region of domicile, educational background and qualifications, ethnic origin, social class, and gender.
Universities UK (UUK)
http://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/
UUK publishes a statistical factsheet for UK HE which is available on their website. There is also a higher education pay and prices index (HEPPI) and an annual survey of tuition fees for overseas students.
Association of University Teachers (AUT)
http://www.aut.org.uk/
Many AUT publications are statistical in nature. As well as giving a particular slant on primary data, they are also commissioned surveys on, for example, stress. As one might expect, the site is particularly strong on issues relating to pay, economics of HE, and equality issues.
Prospects
http://www.prospects.ac.uk/cms/ShowPage/Home_page/p!eLaXi
Prospects is the website of CSU, the Higher Education Career Services Unit. In its jobs and work section, it provides data on graduate career paths, and is one of the few sources to give data for English per se.
Newsletter Issue 5 - April 2003
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