Data collection
We provide funding to providers registered with the Office for Students in the Approved (fee cap) category. Providers registered in this category need to submit a data return to us to inform our funding calculations.
Data collection to inform funding for 2026-27
To calculate funding for the academic year 2026-27 (1 August 2026 – 31 July 2027), providers that are registered in the Approved (fee cap) category will be required to submit a data return on the number of registered students they have in 2025-26.
This will be the HESES25 – Higher Education Students Early Statistics survey.
Contact us
If you have any queries about the data collection to inform funding, please contact [email protected].
Condition F1 transparency return
Providers are required to submit annual ‘transparency data’ to the OfS and to publish the information on their websites. This requirement is part of the OfS’s F1 condition of registration.
Upcoming requirement for providers - Transparency information 2026
We paused this requirement in 2024 and from spring 2026 this will be reinstated.
We will publish guidance about the information which providers will need to publish, along with the timeline, in early 2026. We will also write to providers directly once this information has been published.
Contact us
If you have any queries about the Transparency return, please contact Regulation@officeforstudents.org.uk.
16 September 2024 - Page information refreshed for 2024-25.
13 November 2023 - Extensions announced for the HESES submission and sign-off deadlines for certain providers.
14 September 2023 - Updated for HESES23 guidance
20 September 2022 - Updated for HESES22 guidance
22 September 2021 - Updated for HESES21 guidance
26 March 2020 - The requirement to submit transparency returns in April 2020 is suspended
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