Office for Students

Recent Insight briefs

Findings from OfS quality assessments

This Insight brief examines the main risks to quality emerging from our published reports.

Subcontractual arrangements in higher education

This brief examines the nature of subcontractual arrangements, also known as franchising arrangements, and how to mitigate the risks they carry.

Navigating financial challenges in higher education

This Insight brief looks at financial data from universities and colleges in England which suggests that the higher education sector is facing considerable financial pressure.

Sector-level data

Data and analysis which explores patterns and trends across higher education in England.

Young participation by area

The proportion of young people who participate in higher education by area (POLAR and TUNDRA)

Associations between characteristics of students

Access or continuation in higher education by sets of student characteristics

A geography of employment

The distribution of graduates in highly skilled jobs, and how this varies across the country

Student characteristics data

Characteristics data for students in higher education

Annual Financial Return sector-level data

Data for financial years ending in 2021

OfS key performance measures

Data reported as our key performance measures show the impact of OfS regulation

Provider-level data

Data and analysis reported separately for the individual higher education providers we regulate.

Access and participation data dashboard

Explore data by university or college

Student outcomes data dashboard

Data to support our regulation of student outcomes through registration condition B3

TEF data dashboard

Data to support assessments through the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF)

Size and shape of provision data dashboard

Data about the size and shape of a provider’s student population

Sector distribution of student outcomes and experience measures data dashboard

Data about the distribution of student outcome and experience measures across the sector

Subcontractual partnership student outcomes dashboard

Continuation, completion and progression outcomes for a pilot group of providers involved in large partnership arrangements

Access and participation plan data

Access and participation plan, fee limit and monitoring data

National Student Survey

Get the data from the survey results

Student number data

Student numbers for providers registered with the Office for Students

TRAC data

Annual data for the Transparent Approach to Costing

Graduate earnings data on Discover Uni

Experimental statistics drawn from the Longitudinal Education Outcomes (LEO) data

Degree classifications over time

Analysis of changes in the proportion of first and upper second class degrees awarded

HESES data

Data from the Higher Education Students Early Statistics (HESES) survey used primarily to inform the allocation of teaching funding

Medical and dental students data

Data collected annually to monitor recruitment to medical and dental courses across the UK

Our approach and methods

Understand the measures and methods we use in our provider-level statistics.

Provider typologies

How we group OfS-registered providers in the data and analysis we publish

Student outcome and experience measures

The measures we use to inform the evidence which underpins some key areas of our work

Benchmarking

Read about our benchmarking approach and methodology

Supplying data

Information for providers about our approaches to collecting and checking data.

Introduction to supplying data

Information and guidance on individualised and aggregate student data

Data collection

Information on the data we collect from providers

Data checking tools

Our online tools help providers return accurate data

Post-collection outputs

Information about files we create from submitted data

Amendments to data

The process if errors are identified in data following final submission or sign-off by providers

Data assurance

How we ensure data supplied to us is fit for purpose

ILR training

A series of presentations covering key data fields for students in the ILR

Data Futures programme

Details of the programme to make data collection and reporting in higher education more efficient
See previously published data and analysis

In addition to the data and analysis we produce ourselves, data may also be produced on our behalf, through any independent research we may commission, and by the designated data body. You can find commissioned work by filtering our publications page to show the independent research category.

You can also access a range of data and official statistics published by the designated data body.

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