Yes please, David.
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000 11:05:00 -0000 David Young
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| As members of the list will know, in its recent work on
| Performance Indicators, HEFCE used "fuzzy matching"
| techniques to derive overall progression rates for
| undergraduate students using the HESA individualised
| student record. HEFCE has of course given very strong
| assurances that the data will only be used to generate
| statistical summaries, not identify individuals.
|
| One institution has expressed interest in obtaining from
| the HEFCE work information about what happens to students
| who fail to complete their Degrees with the institution.
| They observe that a fairly significant minority of those
| who leave prematurely do so in good academic standing. They
| suspect that they are transferring to other institutions
| within the sector, but have no reliable way of measuring
| what is actually happening.
|
| HEFCE has agreed to consider providing a breakdown of the
| 'transfer totals' by institution transferred to. This would
| give an indication of where students are going in general
| terms, without providing any information which would
| compromise the privacy of individual students. If other
| institutions are also interested, it would make it easier
| for HEFCE to justify the effort, and to see what priority
| might be justified. Clearly resources will be an issue.
| But, in fact, doing it for the sector is not expected to
| be much more work than doing it for one institution.
|
| I should be glad to act as a conduit to HEFCE for any
| expressions of interest which list members might wish to
| make either on this proposal or other suggestions of
| further analysis that would be of value, either via the
| list or direct to me. I undertake to report to the list the
| shape of the outcome - issues and numbers of institutions.
|
| David Young
| Policy Adviser CVCP, Woburn House, 20 Tavistock Square,
| LONDON WC1H 9HQ 0207 419 5484 fax 0207 388 6256
|
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Jim Ridgway
Planning, Resource Allocation, Student Records and Statistics
0117 928-9909 (Fax 925-1424)
University of Bristol
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