Post-collection outputs
Student post-collection outputs
After a provider has submitted their final Student data return to the OfS's designated data body (DDB), we create files called post-collection outputs.
These outputs will be released via the OfS portal.
The target audience for this information is registered providers that make Student returns.
For all post-collection outputs we use derived fields to determine whether to include a student in an output population, such as the HESES population.
We provide a CSV file with each output that contains individualised student data. For each record, we show the value of every derived field and the data that we have used to calculate them. We also provide a technical document and rebuild instructions for each output. These specify how derived fields have been calculated and how to filter individualised student data using our derived fields to find students included in aggregated data.
2024-25 Student data
| Output | Technical document |
|---|---|
Reconciliation exercise HESES24 comparisonThe HESES24 comparison outputs are a summary workbook which compares HESES24 data to HESES24 data recreated using the 2024-25 Student data and an individualised file. |
Field mapping
The individualised data files available through the 2024-25 post-collection outputs use a new field naming convention compared with previous years. We have produced a mapping of old field names to the new ones for 2024-25.
01 October 2026 - Published information about 2024-25 outputs
26 July 2024 - Documentation added for 2021-22 post-collection outputs, for 2024-25.
13 October 2023 - update in 2021-22 IRL data release schedule to change expected release date
07 July 2023 - Documentation added for 2021-22 post-collection outputs
09 March 2023 - Document added for 2021-22 Degree apprenticeship allocation data
09 February 2023 - Documentation added for 2021-22 outputs.
26 January 2023 - Release schedule and information on outputs for 2021-22 Student data published
18 August 2022 - Added the following documentation for 2020-21 Post-collection outputs - HESA Student AFR21 higher education student FTEs technical document
15 July 2022 - Added the following documentation for 2020-21: Post-collection outputs - Student premium method document; HESA Student post-collection outputs - Student premium technical document
16 February 2022 - Updated for 2020-21 outputs.
16 August 2021 - Documentation added for 2019-20 post-collection outputs
01 July 2021 - Added rebuild and technical documents for HESES19 post-collection outputs
05 May 2021 - Added link to Transparency 2021 information
10 February 2021 - Updated with 2019-20 student data
13 May 2020 - 2018-19 Student premium technical document and method document published
06 May 2020 - The HESES18A comparison technical document was updated to correct some references to years in paragraph 26, as part of the example given for when a student would generate two countable years
07 April 2020 - 2018-19 HESES18A comparison technical document and HESES18A comparison rebuild instructions published
27 March 2020 - Update on the transparency 2020 post-collection outputs
05 March 2020 - Information about 2018-19 HESA student data added
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