HESA - Youth-Transitions/resources GitHub Wiki

Background

The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) Student Record provides data on student enrolments and achievements within the Higher Education sector.

Most students recorded in the HESA dataset are in higher education (NQF level 4 or above), but (despite the name) a small number of records relate to further education (NQF level 3 and below).

Unlike other education datasets in LEO, HESA includes data relating to all providers in the UK, rather than only England.

Processing

The example script uses fields related to the qualifications for which students are enrolled (and also those which they achieve), including dates, level of study, and mode of study.

We do not include any data relating to subjects studied or pupil characteristics although these are available (on request) to researchers working with LEO. This includes, for example, parental education and socio-economic classification.