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A NewDLHE Update: Capturing the future of graduate outcomes
Facilitating the effective transition of students into the labour market is one of the top policy priorities in higher education at the moment. To support this, we are currently spearheading a major review of the data we collect around graduate destinations – the NewDLHE review.
BlogWhat's happening in your region?
Local skills, enterprise and services strategies are high on the agendas of local planners and HE decision-makers. Understanding the migration of students and graduates into and out of a geographical area plays a big part. The interactive charts in this blogpost offer valuable regional insights. See what’s happening in your region and benchmark this against other UK regions.
Higher education student enrolments and qualifications obtained at higher education providers in the United Kingdom 2015/16
The first release of student data for the academic year 2015/16 shows that 2,280,830 students were enrolled at HE providers in 2015/16, an increase of 0.7% on last year's figure. The number of first year students from outside the EU fell for the second year in a row. 742,730 HE qualifications were awarded and 24% of first degree graduates gained a first class honours classification.
Open data licence: CC-BY-4.0Collection Design V2: thank you from the Collection Design team
Collection Design Project version 2: a massive thank you to everyone who has submitted responses to this stage of the consultation.
BlogReflections on open data – your response to our strategy
Today we publish our summary report of responses from our first consultation on open data. It’s been extremely helpful for us to be able to obtain the views of a wide range of our data suppliers, data users and open data advocates from across the HE sector and further afield.
BlogData Futures software suppliers day
I have spent much of the past year speaking with HE providers about the Data Futures programme. The question I get asked more than any other is ‘are you speaking to the software suppliers?’
BlogWhat's next for NewDLHE?
What’s next for NewDLHE? Back in September, we published the high-level consultation responses, and between us we have now officially read every response to every question – an impressive feat with 200+ responses to 128 questions. We’ve been using your detailed feedback to create the survey design for the replacement to DLHE.
BlogCollection Design Project version 2: Consultation clarifications
Response to questions and feedback submitted as part of the Collection Design Project version 2 design phase.
BlogResponse to the Council for Science and Technology's note on strengthening entrepreneurship
We welcome the publication by the Council for Science and Technology (CST) of their letter, Strengthening entrepreneurship education to boost growth, jobs and productivity. Their recommendations tally with work we are already engaged in to improve data about entrepreneurial education.
Latest collection design proposal launched
Full model of student data collection presented for consultation.