Outcomes performance measures
Strategic objective 3:
‘All students, from all backgrounds, are able to progress into employment, further study, and fulfilling lives, and their qualifications hold their value over time.’
We have three strategic outcomes under this strategic objective, and four key performance measures (KPMs) to help us demonstrate progress against them.
Strategic outcome: graduates and postgraduates leave with the knowledge and skills that will contribute to their national and local economies and communities, and drive productivity.
15. Graduates in highly skilled or professional roles
In development:
We expect to specify this measure during winter 2019-20
This measure will use data from the Graduate Outcomes Survey to show the percentage of graduates in highly skilled or professional roles.
It will assume that these graduates are using the knowledge and skills they acquired in higher education.
16. Employers that think graduates are equipped with the right skills and knowledge
In development:
We are working on the development of this measure
This measure will act as a proxy for how far graduates are meeting the demand for knowledge and skills among employers.
Strategic outcome: Students’ lives are improved and enriched by their time in higher education.
17. Graduate wellbeing
In development:
We expect to specify this measure during winter 2019-20
We want to track the extent to which higher education enriches students’ lives after they’ve left.
This measure will be developed to use questions from the Office for National Statistics' Annual Population Survey. This will allow us to compare the wellbeing of graduates with the rest of the population, and so see if there is a link between higher education and wellbeing.
Strategic outcome: Qualifications hold their value over time, and students are able to use them long after leaving higher education.
18. Students achieving 1sts
29%
Proportion in 2018-19
We are working on a target for this measure
The proportion of 1sts awarded was the same in 2017-18 and 2018-19 after years of steady increases.
See KPM 18Feedback
We welcome feedback on the key performance measures, including on our overall approach and on individual measures. If you have any comments or queries, please contact Josh Fleming at [email protected].
If you have any queries about the statistics published as KPMs, please contact Hannah White at [email protected].
The Office for Students is committed to following the Code of Practice for Statistics for the statistics it produces. See more information and our statistics release schedule.
If you have any other questions or complaints about statistics produced by the Office for Students, please contact Mark Gittoes, Head of Profession for Statistics, at [email protected] or call 0117 931 7052.
02 April 2020 - Annual update of KPM 18
18 December 2019 - Specification dates updated
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