Statistics 2010

Key statistics 2010 - PDF version (1.02 MB)

Joint agency statistical report 2010

Introduction

This report has been prepared by an inter-agency group including representatives from national bodies which collect key data about Access to HE in England and Wales. The agencies which contributed to the 2010 Joint agency statistical report for Access to HE are:

The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education
UCAS
The Data Service and the Welsh Assembly Government Department for Children, Education, Lifelong Learning and Skills
The Higher Education Statistics Agency - HESA analysis report | HESA performance indicators report.

This collaborative venture has enabled the ADDG to provide, through this annual report, the most comprehensive set of published statistical data about Access to HE, including data about course providers and provision, about students' achievement, and about their progression into and through higher education.

The organisations represented on the ADDG are committed to the Management Information Across Partnership (MIAP) principles, and data is shared in accordance with the MIAP recommendations, minimising duplication of data requests to those responsible for gathering and supplying the data, wherever possible. The continuous improvement in the range and completeness of data included in this report has been achieved with the cooperation of a wide range of institutions, organisations and individuals: the ADDG is grateful to all those who have contributed to this work.

The composite report is divided into a number of sections, with each agency's data provided separately. While the ADDG aims to achieve comparability of data wherever possible, there are differences in the detail and definition of cohorts and data categories between the sections, reflecting the particular needs and purposes of different agencies' data collection exercises. In making any comparisons between the sections, readers should note individual agencies' comments about the source and coverage of their own data.

For clarification, the following table details the cohorts on which each agency's data is based, highlighting the differences between each data set.

	Student cohort on which 2010 report is based	Year of study on Access to HE course	Included in the data set	Not included in the data set
QAA data	studying on QAA-recognised Access to HE course	2008-09	full and part-time students students in England and Wales (and the Channel Islands) LSC/DCELLS-funded and non-publicly funded	students on other 'access' courses (including courses in Scotland)
Data Service/ DCELLS data	studying on QAA-recognised Access to HE course	2008-09	full and part-time students students in England (Data Service) and Wales (DCELLS) courses/students supported by LSC/DCELLS funding	students on other 'access' courses (including courses in Scotland)
UCAS data	with, or working towards, an Access to HE qualification and applying for entry to HE in 2008-09 entry cycle with, or working towards, an Access to HE qualification and accepted for entry to HE	During or prior to 2008-09	resident in England and Wales students with a QAA-recognised Access to HE qualification	students applying to/accepted on part-time HE courses students who make applications outside the UCAS system students resident in Scotland and Northern Ireland
HESA data	entering undergraduate programmes in 2008-09, with a QAA-recognised Access to HE qualification. (that is,not the same cohort of students as reported by QAA, Data Service, DCELLS or UCAS)	During or prior to 2007-08	full and part-time students registered in the first year of undergraduate courses in HE institutions in England and Wales	students who enter HE courses in FE institutions students from England and Wales who enter HE courses in HEIs in Scotland students with other 'access' qualifications

Due to the large number of complex data tables, they are presented in PDF format.

QAA report (178KB)

Data Service/DCELLS report (82KB)

UCAS report (243KB)

HESA analysis report (154KB)

HESA performance indicators report (48KB)

All individual agency contributions have been verified by those organisations themselves.