CASE STUDY Ballet West gains UK-wide competitive advantage from HESA Student record and DLHE survey ABOUT BALLET Why Ballet West chose to become a HESA subscriber WEST SCOTLAND Ballet West became an elective HESA subscriber in 2016/17. As an alternative HE provider in Scotland it has no statutory requirement to Ballet West is an submit data, but because of the competitive advantage it brings, Ballet ambitious ballet West chose to submit individualised data on around 90 undergraduate school based in Argyll, students to HESA. Scotland, which offers full time higher education courses in dance, validated by the Open University. It also runs a variety of outreach classes for students from age two through to adults, including classes for 300 young people throughout Argyll, As with the alternative HE providers that submit data on a statutory basis, four summer schools, Ballet West received two induction visits from HESA in preparation of its and two year-long first data return, and the HESA liaison team continued to support the Associate courses in school through each step of the process. Edinburgh and Glasgow. “We’re looking forward to be able to use the HESA data to show off who we are to prospective students. The HESA data is crucial to the TEF1 , NSS2 and DLHE3 – it seems like a sensible idea to get this right before these become mandatory returns for us.” MIKE ROWELL, ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATOR Higher Education Statistics Agency Limited (HESA) is a company limited by guarantee, registered in England at 95 Promenade, Cheltenham, GL50 1HZ. Registered No. 2766993. Registered Charity No. 1039709. Certified to ISO 27001. The members are Universities UK and GuildHE. Developing competitive advantage Ballet West realised the benefits of inclusion in these national surveys, to support the school’s planning and marketing strategies. In the first year, the school identified some gaps in its data collection which led to updating its enrolment processes. The management team is also mindful of the possibility that the TEF rating could be linked to course fees and is now confident that the school is data-ready should this happen. The process has led Ballet West to see other future benefits of the investment in data collection. The school anticipates being able to better analyse from where their students originate – which will be important when presenting evidence to the Scottish government and comparing the funding status of Scottish and English students. Gender split among alternative HE providers Number of providers to show Highlight alternative HE provider name Number of providers to show Highlight alternative HE provider name 20 No items highlighted Ethnicity split among alternative HE providers 20 No items highlighted Male vs Female White vs BAME (designated courses - excluding unknown) 2015/16 2015/16 Open College of the Arts GSM London ICON College of Technology and Management London School of Business and Finance (UK) Limited St Patrick's International College London Churchill College Ltd West London College of St Patrick's International Business and Management .. College Richmond, The American London School of Science International University in L.. and Technology Limited BPP University London School of Business and Management London Churchill College Ltd ICON College of Technology and Management Arden University Nelson College London Ltd Regent's University London West London College of Business and Management .. Regent College UK College of Business and Computing London School of Business and Finance (UK) Limited BPP University GSM London Richmond, The American International University in L.. London School of Business and Management Regent's University London London School of Science and Technology Limited Regent College UK College of Business and Arden University Computing Nelson College London Ltd SAE Education Limited BIMM Limited BIMM Limited University College of Estate The Academy of Management Contemporary Music The Academy of University College of Estate Contemporary Music Management SAE Education Limited Open College of the Arts Get in touch -90% -80% -70% -60% -50% -40% -30% -20% -10% 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% -90% -80% -70% -60% -50% -40% -30% -20% -10% 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% Alternative HE provider name Highlight provider name Age of student versus mode of study in alternative HE providers All Bubble chart - alternative HE providers sized by number of students (FTE) No items highlighted 2015/16 2015/16 Overall numbers Proportion of whole St Patrick's (All) International (All) UK College College of Business HESA 3.6% Regent College Open College 441 11,955 20 and under of the Arts London School of Business London Churchill 96.4% The London West Nelson 10.6% London College BIMM Limited London Richmond, School of The 1,247 10,522 21-24 [email protected] Regent's 89.4% University London The Academy of 18.9% Arden University 1,306 5,587 25-29 Mont Rose BPP University GSM London + 44 (0) 1242 211 144 81.1% College of ICON College of Technology 18.6% 4,135 18,076 30+ University London School SAE College of of Science and Education www.hesa.ac.uk 81.4% Technology 0K 2K 4K 6K 8K 10K 12K 14K 16K 18K 20K 22K Part-time Full-time Number of students (FTE) @ukhesa Future-proofing processes By subscribing electively to HESA, Ballet West has a headstart if the return of data becomes a statutory requirement for the school. Should BALLET WEST this happen, the school has already built up the expertise and systems to meet the data collection requirements. In addition, Ballet West anticipates mike.rowell@ using the data for strengthening its position when lobbying government, balletwest.ac.uk and for marketing itself to young dancers, inspiring them to follow in the + 44 (0) 1866 822 641 footsteps of those graduates who go on to successful careers in the highly-competitive dance world. www.balletwest.co.uk 1 The Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework. Participating higher education providers receive a gold, silver or bronze award reflecting the excellence of their teaching, learning @balletwest environment and student outcomes. 2 The National Student Survey gathers students’ opinions on the quality of their courses. 3 The Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education survey collects information on what all leavers from HE programmes are doing six months after qualifying from their HE course. .