Data set from Higher Level Learners in England

Local authority of permanent address

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Published 4 September 2025

Last updated 4 September 2025

English-domiciled higher-level learners in England by local authority of permanent address, academic years 2015/16 to 2023/24.

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Data set details

• Theme: Higher education
• Publication: Higher Level Learners in England
• Release: Academic year 2023/24
• Number of rows: 153,075
• Geographic levels: Local authority district, National
• Indicators:
  • Number of entrants
  • Number of qualifiers
  • Percentage of all enrolments by characteristic
• Filters:
  • Broad type of higher learning
  • Level of study
  • Type of higher learning
• Time period: 2015/16 to 2023/24

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Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	level	broad_type_of_higher_education	type_of_higher_education	lad_name	lad_code	number_of_entrants	number_of_enrolments	number_of_qualifiers	percentage_of_entrants_by_characteristic	percentage_of_all_enrolments_by_characteristic	percentage_of_qualifiers_by_characteristic
201516	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Total	Total	Total			728140	1657835	502655	100	100	100
201516	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Level 4	Total	Total			65655	94725	44485	100	100	100
201516	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Level 5	Total	Total			87160	150410	55245	100	100	100
201516	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Level 7	Total	Total			158145	288385	115470	100	100	100
201516	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Level 8	Total	Total			11930	44385	10110	100	100	100

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 9 variables

Variable name	Variable description
broad_type_of_higher_education	Broad type of higher learning
level	Level of study
number_of_enrolments	Total number of enrolments
number_of_entrants	Number of entrants
number_of_qualifiers	Number of qualifiers

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Footnotes

1. The “Other higher level” category is lower bound estimate, combining “Other higher level - Unfunded” and "Other higher level - ESFA / Adv. Learner Loan". There is likely to be some unfunded-learning in FE providers that is not recorded as it is only mandatory for providers to record information in the ILR for their ESFA-funded learners. There may also be higher level learning in the private sector that is not recorded in administrative data held by government.
2. Over the last two academic years, HESA have reported a larger amount of missing permanent address information at a number of providers. Some of the missing data relates to continuing students for whom it was not possible to retrieve the information from the legacy submissions. Other missing data may be attributed to missing entry information.
3. Geographies are taken from the National Statistics Postcode Lookup based on boundaries as of February 2024.

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