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HE Statistics from SFC. John Duffy. HE stats. SFC collections Early Stats (aggregate) Final figures (aggregate) Other activity (previously called Minor Volume Indicators – data for research funding formulae) Knowledge transfer metrics (unlikely to continue – data for KT funding formula).
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HE Statistics from SFC John Duffy
HE stats • SFC collections • Early Stats (aggregate) • Final figures (aggregate) • Other activity (previously called Minor Volume Indicators – data for research funding formulae) • Knowledge transfer metrics (unlikely to continue – data for KT funding formula)
HESA collections • Student record • Staff record • Finance record • DLHE surveys
Student record • Participation report • Retention report • PIs
Participation report • Post-compulsory school age participation • FES • HESA • Some school data from pupil census • Detailed geographical breakdown • Intermediate zones (rates are smoothed)
Retention report • Logistic regression analysis producing ‘expected values’ by subject and institution • Adjusted for qualifications, demographics etc • Cross-validation (excludes the institution and subject category data) • Compare with actual outcomes
PIs • Produced by HESA – ‘owned’ by HEFCE • Problems • Access PI - low participation based on UK levels and all entrants • NS-SEC PI – again based on all entrants • Scotland has few low-participation areas on a UK basis • 11% of all UK entrants in 2008-09 were from outside Scotland
Scottish domiciled students • Access PI based on SIMD and datazones • Most deprived 40% • Most deprived 20% • SEC PI • Entrants from elsewhere in the UK tend to be of higher social class than entrants from Scotland • PI for all young u/g entrants from SC 4 5 6 7 • UK 30.1 • Sc26.6 • Sc Sc dom 29.0
Lighter touch? • Not so far • One-off WARP collection • Entrants in 2008-09 • Did they come back in 2009-10? • Single collection • Replace Early Stats, HESA SR, Final figures • One retimed collection • Problem of divergence from UK system
Participation Report Zeg Ashraf SFC Statistics 26 March 2010
Aims • To summarise participation in FE and HE amongst Scottish domiciled 16+ year olds • Examine variation in participation by • geography • time • student subgroups • population subgroups
Data • FES Headcount derived by matching enrolments • HESA student records Students at UK HEIs • School pupil census (September) By age on 1st March State schools only
Exclusions • FE enrolments on non-funded courses • Students under 16 on 28th February But includes • Postgraduate students • College school link courses in FE • All FE students regardless of length of study
Calculating FTE’s HESA • with reference to a full-time, full-year student (1) FES • For comparability: • Full-time: 1 • Part-time: hours studied / expected hours for full-time course • Adjusted for non-completion
Missing postcodes • Data zones imputed for students with no valid postcode • Use matching characteristics related to home location • HESA – local authority and previous institution (1.2 %) • FES - local authority, campus, college (1.2 %)
Population estimation • Mid-year population estimates from GROS by datazone, age, gender • Students recorded at term-time address • As FES and HESA record students at home address, useful if population estimates can be ‘corrected’ to do the same.
Population estimation 2 • Two census tables used to adjust estimates: • CAS012 - the number of schoolchildren and students in full-time education living away from home in term-time. • T17 - the number of full-time students and schoolchildren in an area by their accommodation type.
Measuring participation • Rates in population • Student sub-groups • Age-gender standardised rates • Geographical comparisons • Standardised Participation Ratio (SPR): Observed / Expected if national rates applied • National SPR=1
Key findings from current report • the total number of individuals studying in college or university education has fallen between 2003-04 and 2007-08. • there is substantial geographical variation in levels of participation. Many areas that have relatively low participation in further education have relatively high participation in higher education, and vice versa • In college further education participation in the most deprived areas is 40 per cent higher than that in the less deprived in 2007-08 • In college and university higher education participation is higher for women than men in all age groups. In 2007-08, among those aged 16-20, 24 per cent of women were in higher education, compared with 19 per cent of men
Participation Report on SFC Website • www.sfc.ac.uk • Reports and Publications • Nov 2008 Next report (2004-05 to 2008-09) due in May 2010 Copies of Technical Report can be provided on request