21 August 2015 
Matt Sisson, Projects and Membership Manager
HESA has published its annual HE statistics today, for the 2013/14 academic year. It gives an overview of the facts and figures of the university sector, covering areas such as students and staff, income, qualifications, and more. There’s a brief summary of some of the figures on the press release here, but much more detail in this introduction. Click here for the full datasets.
There were 2.3million students of all kinds in HE last year, down 1.7% on last year, but figures for part-time students were down 16.5% on 12/13. 56.1% of students were female, a figure that rises to 60.4% for part-timers. For the financial figures, sector net income was up 5.2% at £30.6bn, with expenditure up 5.1% at £29.4bn. Staff costs as a percentage of total expenditure has risen slightly from 55.2% to 55.4%.
In other figures, the proportion of academic staff HEIs employ has risen from 48.5% to 49.1% of the total workforce.
