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Graduate Prospects

Destinations of full-time first degree UK domiciled leavers. The destination categories were based upon a split of SOC 2000 codes for graduates and leavers entering employment, together with type of qualification codes for graduates and leavers entering further study. This split of SOC 2000 codes was derived from Elias & Purcell’s report ‘SOC (HE) A Classification of occupations for studying the graduate labour market’ (Institute for Employment Research, Warwick). This split of SOC 2000 codes produces four categories of graduate level employment (‘Traditional graduate occupations’, ‘Modern graduate occupations’, ‘New graduate occupations’, ‘Niche graduate occupations’). The data were derived from the HESA Destination of Leavers from HE (DLHE) Record. Source: HESA 2007/8 based on 2007 graduates.

The analysis of the results of the Research Assessment Exercise 2008 makes use of contextual data supplied under contract by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA). It is a contractual condition that this statement should be published in conjunction with the analysis.

“HESA holds no data specifying which or how many staff have been regarded by each institution as eligible for inclusion in RAE 2008, and no data on the assignment to Units of Assessment of those eligible staff not included. Further, the data that HESA does hold is not an adequate alternative basis on which to estimate eligible staff numbers, whether for an institution as a whole, or disaggregated by Units of Assessment, or by some broader subject-based grouping.”

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Subject tables were based on 4 indicators: Research Quality, Entry Standards and Graduate Prospects and, for the first time, Student Satisfaction. (Education includes a fifth Indicator – the most current teaching training assessments by Ofsted.) Theses were combined using a z-score transformation with equal weighting for the indicators and the totals were transformed to a scale with 100 for the top score.

Student Satisfaction

The percentage of positive responses (Agree & Definitely Agree) in each of the six question areas (Teaching, Assessment & Feedback, Academic Support, Organisation & Management, Learning Resources and Personal Development) plus the Overall Satisfaction question were combined to provide a composite score and averaged over two years. This was mapped at 107 subject level to the Times subjects. If a score did not exist at this level then the 41 subject level data was used or, if that did not exist, 19 subject level. For institutions where an NSS score was not present at any of these levels the average score of the other indicators was used. Source: 2007 & 2008 National Student Survey.

Research Quality

Overall quality of research based on the new 2008 Research Assessment Exercise. The output of the RAE gave each institution a profile in the following categories: 4* world-leading, 3* internationally excellent and 2* internationally recognised (with another two lower categories). The Funding Bodies decided only to fund research in the higher 3 categories, and directed more funds to the very best research by applying weightings: 4* receiving 7 times the weight of 2*, and 3* receiving 3 times the weight of 2*. These weightings have been used in the tables. Estimations of the proportion of eligible staff submitted were not sufficiently robust at subject level to be used.

Source: Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE).

Entry Standards

Mean tariff point scores on entry for first year, first degree students under 21 years of age based on A and AS Levels and Highers and Advanced Highers only. Entrants with zero tariffs were excluded from the calculation. Source: HESA 2007/8.

Graduate Prospects

Destinations of full-time first degree UK domiciled leavers aggregated over two years. The destination categories were based upon a split of SOC 2000 codes for graduates and leavers entering employment, together with type of qualification codes for graduates and leavers entering further study. This split of SOC 2000 codes was derived from Elias & Purcell’s report ‘SOC (HE) A Classification of occupations for studying the graduate labour market’ (Institute for Employment Research, Warwick). This split of SOC 2000 codes produces four categories of graduate level employment (‘Traditional graduate occupations’, ‘Modern graduate occupations’, ‘New graduate occupations’, ‘Niche graduate occupations’). The data were derived from the HESA Destination of Leavers from HE (DLHE) Record. Source: HESA 2005/6 and 2006/7.

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