TEF data dashboard

About the dashboard

The TEF data dashboard shows data for individual providers and supports assessments through the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF). It contains information on student outcomes and experience measures and is reported across a range of indicators and split indicators.

The student outcomes and experience measures are part of the evidence used in TEF assessments, alongside evidence submitted by the provider itself and, where available, from the provider’s students.

Please see Regulatory advice 22: Guidance on the Teaching Excellence Framework 2023 for more information on how the TEF panel will consider these different sources of evidence.

The dashboard is populated with the following student outcomes and experience measures:

1. Continuation: The proportion of students who were observed to be continuing in the study of a higher education qualification (or have gained a qualification) one year and 15 days after they started their course (two years and 15 days for part-time students)
2. Completion: The proportion of students who were observed to have gained a higher education qualification (or were continuing in the study of a qualification) four years and 15 days after they started their course (six years and 15 days for part-time students).
3. Progression: The proportion of qualifiers who identify managerial or professional employment, further study or other positive outcomes among the activities that they were undertaking when responding to the Graduate Outcomes survey 15 months after they left higher education.
4. Student experience measures: The level of agreement indicated among final year students to the range of statements that comprise an area, or scale, of the National Student Survey asking about different aspects of their higher education experience.

About the data

The TEF data dashboard and associated data files are based on a common set of student outcome and experience data indicators we construct and publish for use in our regulation.

These are produced in the same way for each provider we regulate, using available national datasets and consistent definitions and approaches to data. The data definitions and approaches used follow from our consultation on the construction of student outcome and experience data indicators for use in our regulation.

Common queries about the data presented in this dashboard can be found in our frequently asked questions.

Details of the data sources, definitions and methods that the OfS uses to construct student outcome and experience indicators can be found in archived documents that were published in September 2022 describing our measures and definitions.