Graduates: Databases

(asked on 9th July 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what use officials in his Department are making of the Longitudinal Education Outcomes database.


Answered by
Sam Gyimah Portrait
Sam Gyimah
This question was answered on 17th July 2018

The department has published seven statistical first releases and one ad hoc release for graduate employment outcomes using Longitudinal Education Outcomes (LEO) data. These cover the employment outcomes for undergraduates and postgraduates one, three, five and 10 years after graduating. Figures are published at institution and subject level as well as national level. These publications are available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-higher-education-graduate-employment-and-earnings.

Students’ ability to make informed choices is at the heart of the higher education (HE) reform agenda. We are keen that these releases are easily accessible by HE students. We have therefore launched a Higher Education Open Data Competition, which is part of the work we are doing to improve the way we provide information to students.

The competition aims to give students full access to valuable data on graduate outcomes - including aggregated, publically available LEO data - on an accessible and innovative digital platform.

By supporting the development of new tools, the competition will help all applicants, regardless of their background, make decisions that are right for them and get value for money.

We plan to make appropriate extracts of the data available in the ONS Secure Research Service, in late 2018.

In addition to this, we currently make data available, under contract, to the following research groups:

Centre for Vocational Education Research,

Institute for Fiscal Studies,

University of Westminster.

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