Changes to 2025 student data surveys to inform funding

Notification of changes to HESES and MDS

To inform the calculation of OfS grants, all higher education providers that are registered with the OfS in the Approved (fee cap) category are required to complete the HESES survey, which will collect data on the number of students registered with the provider.

Providers which offer pre-registration courses in medicine and dentistry are required to complete the MDS survey. The MDS survey is used to monitor medical and dental recruitment and collect data on the intakes in the current and previous academic years.

This document provides notification of the changes that we intend to make to these surveys for 2025 from last year.