Help, guidance and tools
For help and guidance with HESA data collections contact Liaison by email or call +44 (0)1242 388 531.
Technical guidance for submitting data to us can be found in the relevant coding manual. Tips on the submission process can be found in Data submission best practice.
Data collection tools and user guides
Identity system (IDS) user guide
Issue Management System (IMS) user Guide
New: Online validation tool guide: for Student - Data Futures 2022/23 collection onwards and 2023 interim submission
Validation kits: used to test your data locally before submitting to us.
Quality rules FAQ: commonly asked questions about the quality rules triggered in the data submission and QA process.
XML data entry tool: used to produce XML data in the correct format. This tool is available for some of our streams; where it is available, it can be downloaded from the relevant coding manual.
XML amalgamator tool (Amal tool): used to amalgamate multiple xml files.
General help and guidance
Importing *.csv formatted data into Excel.
Data capability
The data capability toolkit is designed to help providers understand and improve standards of data management and governance.
Unistats dataset
Download the raw dataset which underlies the Discover Uni website.