Data collection

The main HESES24 guidance document set out the full requirements for the HESES24 return, including the funding rules and definitions used when completing the survey.

Supporting documents

• Completing the HESES24 workbook
• HESES24 sample tables (FECs)
• HESES24 sample tables (other providers)

Appendices

• HESES24 Appendix 1: Downloading and submitting HESES24
• HESES24 Appendix 2: Validation checks
• HESES24 Appendix 3: Credibility checks
• HESES24 Appendix 4: Comparison tables
• HESES24 Appendix 5: Funding tables
• HESES24 Appendix 6: How the multiplication factors have been calculated

List of recognised courses

In the HESES24 return, further education and sixth form colleges and academies entered data at a course level in the ‘Courses’ table, using the learning aim for each course.

A list of valid learning aims used to populate this table was taken from the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA)’s 'Find a learning aim' service:

• HESES24 Courses table information
  An overview of the HESES24 courses table and the algorithms used to produce the list of courses included in HESES24
• HESES24 Courses table learning aims
  An Excel workbook containing a list of higher education learning aims from the ESFA’s learning aims database that are included or excluded from HESES24

List of recognised courses

The HESES23 list of recognised courses applies only to further education and sixth form colleges and academies. 

Within the HESES23 workbook is the courses table which can be used to enter information at course level for all students who start on or before the census date of 1 November.

The list of courses that we use to populate this table is taken from the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA)’s 'Find a learning aim' service. The list of courses that is included in the HESES23 workbook was taken from the ESFA’s update of their learning aims database on Wednesday 11 October 2023.

We published the list of higher education courses from the ESFA’s learning aims database which were either included or excluded from the HESES23 workbook and details of the algorithms that we have used to populate the list.

HESES23 Courses table information

An overview of the HESES23 courses table and the algorithms used to produce the list of courses included in HESES23

HESES23 Courses table learning aims

An Excel workbook containing a list of higher education learning aims from the ESFA’s learning aims database that were included or excluded from HESES23