Information Supplied to Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA)

Information relating to students held by the University will be sent to the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA).

Student Information

Your record will be added to a database which will be passed to the central government departments and agencies and devolved administrations which require it to carry out their statutory functions under the Education Acts. It will also be used in anonymised form for statistical analysis by HESA and the above bodies resulting in publication and release of data to other approved non-statutory users. These may include academic researchers and commercial bodies.

You may wish to note that your contact details will not be made available to HESA, your names will not be used or included in its statistical analysis and precautions are taken to minimise the risk that you will be able to be identified from the data. Neither statutory nor non-statutory users of the HESA data will be able to use the data to contact you. Under the Data Protection Act 1998 you have the right to a copy of the data held about you by HESA, for a small fee. If you have any concerns about, or objections to, the use of data for these purposes, please contact HESA at www.hesa.ac.uk, or by writing to 95 Promenade, Cheltenham, Glos, GL50 1HZ.

First Destination Survey

Information collected for the First Destination Survey will be used by the University and the coded information on the right hand side of the survey form will be sent to the Higher Education Statistics Agency.

Every year we write to all those who have graduated to find out where they have gone and what they are doing. The information provided will allow us to inform current students about the opportunities which might be available to them and will also form part of our statutory return to a national database. All the information will be handled in accordance with the Data Protection Act and no one will be able to obtain information about you personally from any published statistics.

Staff Information

Some information held by the University about you is sent in coded and anonymised form to the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) annually. Your record is added to a database which is passed to central government departments and agencies and devolved administrations which require it to enable them to carry out their statutory functions under the Education Acts. It is also used for statistical analysis by HESA and the above bodies resulting in publication and release of data to other non-statutory users. These may include academic researchers and unions. You may wish to note that your name and contact details will not be made available to HESA and precautions are taken to minimise the risk that you will be able to be identified from the data.

Under the Data Protection Act 1998 you have the right to a copy of the data held about you. Because the data held about you is anonymised and a subset of that held on you by the University, data subject requests should be addressed in the first instance to the University. If you have any queries about, or concerns to, the use of data for these purposes, please contact HESA at www.hesa.ac.uk, or by writing to 18 Royal Crescent, Cheltenham, GL50 3DA.