Portfolio periodic review, new courses etc

How can I get hold of University of Bedfordshire trend recruitment information?

Our retention, recruitment and performance information is available via Student Records

At the time of compiling these notes, UoB enrolment data needs to be requested through the ICT helpdesk:

• Click onto the ICT helpdesk;
• Click on Self Service portal, then on the SRO red tile;
• Click on Student Records; then Data Reports request;
• Fill in the form.

What courses are currently available on the market?

To see what courses are currently open for application:

• Undergraduate - use UCAS's course search
• Postgraduate – UCAS course search for PG; Prospects or Findamasters

How well have different courses recruited at different HEIs?

The University buys UK enrolment data from the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). These data were formerly provided by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA). These data enable those with access to the data to extract:

• Measures of HEI supply (usually a good proxy for demand) at all public UK higher education institutions;
• Recruitment cohort numbers by course (see details of HESA bespoke dataset which contains this information, towards bottom of competitors' page)
• Subject area competitors, from Market Research

These data are stored on servers managed by the University’s ICT department.

JISC also manages the HEIDI Plus platform, which allows analysis by a number of factors on 15 years of student data. The University’s access and training of HEIDI users is managed by the Registry – the Registrar has ultimate sign off of users.

Enrolment data from other universities

The University buys in five years’ worth of bespoke data from the (JISC), for UK public higher education institution (HEI) enrolments. Data includes:

• Demographic (e.g. age at entry, outer postcode, nationality);
• Course titles and subject area classifications;
• Fee region (home or international).

The University has bought UCAS application data in the past (i.e. applications, unique applicants and acceptances). Information about these ‘EXACT’ data and how to request can be found on the UCAS website

Which subject areas are recruiting well?

• The Higher Statistics Agency (HESA) publish subject breakdowns by students’ personal characteristics and HE provider;
• The Office for Students provide analysis of continuation, attainment and progression by subject and mode of study.

How can I tell how well courses are performing, in terms of NSS, retention, employment etc.?

National Student Survey (NSS)

Discover Uni is owned and operated by UK HE funding and regulatory bodies. It includes official statistics about higher education courses taken from national surveys and data collected from universities and colleges about all their students and can be used to pull down information for different courses and allow comparisons for:

• National Student Survey (NSS) (e.g. satisfaction, teaching, support, learning resources/communities, organisation & management etc);
• Entry information, including distribution of tariff points;
• Outcomes & earnings at different times after course completion.

Other NSS resources include:

• 2024 results dashboard, published by WonkHE;
• Results spreadsheets; all HEIs, latest and historical, by subject areas published at the Office for Students.

League tables and frameworks

• Guardian University Guide; includes the latest league tables;
• Complete University Guide (CUG); again, opens on league tables page;
• Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) outcomes dashboard- on Office for Students (OfS) website;
• Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021 results and website;

Continuation, retention and outcomes

These data are published at institutional level, but not at course level (unless otherwise stated):

• Office for Students publish continuation, completion and progression data for all their registered providers;
• The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) publishes the numbers of degree awards by classification at institutional level (not at subject or course level);
• Graduate Outcomes 2021/22 statistics; summary page links to breakdown, including by HEI (published HESA)

Accreditation, employment and earnings information

Accreditation for specific courses can be accessed via:

• HEI course pages;
• Lists published by accrediting bodies (for example, the British Psychological Society (BPS), The British Association of Sport and Exercise Science (BASES), The Chartered Insitute of Marketing (CIM), etc.);
• Discover Uni publishes course-level national statistics for employment and average earnings 15 months after graduation.

 

Last updated: 2/9/24