The new HESA Data Platform has been opened for higher education providers to access and submit information on student records.
The launch follows the merger in October of last year of the Higher Education Statistics Authority and Jisc, the membership body for providing technology services to the sector.
The platform will be used for information based on the Student 22056 data standard, which takes in a range of attributes on students, their qualifications and funding.
Jisc said it now includes an improved interface that has been tested and refined with providers, automated quality assurance and supporting processes, and an online validation tool. The latter comes with increased quality rules and in-built data protection.
It added that providers will use it to complete interim submissions for the Student 22056 collection return deadline in May and August. All of them have received identity system roles to log in, along with a coding manual and support guides.
Integrating services
Heidi Fraser-Krauss, chief executive officer of Jisc, said: “The HESA Data Platform is an achievement that helps us deliver integrated data and digital services across UK higher education. It demonstrates that the merger of Jisc and HESA has created an organisation with the expertise and resources to deliver solutions for the sector’s needs.”
Chief technology officer Phil Richards commented: “The new platform’s scalable cloud native architecture has set a high bar for software development at Jisc and underpins other exciting new data and digital services for the sector.”
The launch is part of the Data Futures transformation programme for higher education.
