Overview of the series
Outputs in the Higher Education in focus series provide an overview of the shape and impact of the UK's higher education sector, using simple and innovative visualisations of data.
Recent publications
Driving economic growth (December 2011)
This publication highlights the critical role UK universities’ will continue to play in reviving and sustaining economic growth across the country. Using a range of visual data and statistics it highlights that the UK’s future success depends on building up innovation and the knowledge economy in an increasingly competitive global environment, and the key role that Universities will play in achieving this.
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Driving ecomomic growth
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Sources for Driving economic growth
Sources for Driving economic growth
Patterns and trends in UK higher education (October 2011)
This report builds on the time series data produced annually since 2001 under the title Patterns of higher education institutions in the UK. It offers a unique overview of provision at publicly-funded higher education institutions in the UK.
Section A shows sector-level trends over the last 10 years from 2000/01 to 2009/10. For the first time, this offers a true time series provided by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), accounting for changes to the way student numbers are counted.
Section B looks at patterns of institutional diversity covering students, staff and finance.
The report provides a very helpful insight into high-level trends during a decade of significant expansion and change. Among other things, the report tracks the rise of student numbers, the changing popularity of different subject areas, and a notable shift in the funding regime. It also demonstrates how higher education institutions continue to make a large contribution to civil society and the economy in the UK.
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Patterns and trends in UK higher education (October 2011)
Supplementary data
Section_A_tables_charts_Patterns2011.xls Section_A_tables_charts_Patterns2011.pdf
Section_B_tables_charts_Patterns2011.xls SectionB_tables_charts_Patterns2011.pdf