8.18 Government and Regulator relations

Funding body statistical reports and returns

Information in this Category currently includes:

• Information provided directly to the Scottish Further and Higher Education Funding Council (SFC) or via the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA)
• The University's Aggregate Individualised Staff Record (summary form without personal details) return to HESA available from: foi@hw.ac.uk
• The SFC Early Statistics Return and the SFC Final Figures Return (summary form without personal details) available from: foi@hw.ac.uk
• The SFC Mid-Year Financial Return available from: foi@hw.ac.uk
• The Strategic Plan Financial Forecast return available from: foi@hw.ac.uk

Note: Information on data collected by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) is available on HESA's own web pages.

Note: Information on the regulatory framework established by the Scottish Further and Higher Education Funding Council (SFC) including Conditions of Grant information is available on SFC's own web pages.

Other statutory reports

Information which the University is legally required to publish. Information in this Category currently includes:

Published Annual Accounts: these can be viewed on our Finance page.

Information on student admission, progression, completion:  Statistical information on these matters which the University is required by the Funding Council to publish. Information in this Category currently includes: Admissions, Summary statistics by school/programme, Student progression. We publish annual statistical reports. 

Performance indicators in higher education

From 1998 the four UK funding bodies developed indicators of the performance of higher education institutions. The last two reports are available on the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) website.

Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) published statistics

HESA publishes annually statistics relating to: students in higher education institutions; and destinations of leavers from higher education. Information is available on HESA's web pages.

HESA levies a charge for published information in hard copy or on CD-ROM but do offer access to some free on-line statistics.

Reports in hard copy are held by the University, and are available for reference by arrangement.