The UK Performance Indicators provide comparative data on the performance of higher education (HE) providers across several areas.
The areas that the Performance Indicators cover are:
- Widening participation
- Non-continuation rates (including projected outcomes)
- Experimental statistics - UK Performance Indicators for Alternative Providers
- Employment of leavers (2002/03 to 2016/17)
In May 2021 we announced the discontinuation of the HESA UK Performance Indicators (UKPIs) in the form in which they had been published by HESA since 2003. We reached this decision in response to the significant changes in the policy and regulatory environments across the nations of the UK over the period since these indicators had been launched. In making this decision, we recognised the fact that development of the indicators had failed to keep pace with those changes in the wider environment. In particular, the emergence of extensive new suites of regulatory measures in recent years alongside lack of development in the UKPIs had led to a situation in which statistical coherence in key measures for users was compromised. The HESA UKPIs published in 2022 were therefore the final edition.
