Data Protection Policy: Transferring Data to HESA
The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) is the official agency for the collection, analysis and dissemination of quantitative information about higher education in the UK. It was set up by agreement between the relevant government departments, the higher education funding councils and the universities and colleges in 1993. HESA gathers information from higher education institutions in the UK at the request of various statutory customers, such as the Department for Education and Skills and the Higher Education Funding Council for England.
SOAS has to routinely supply certain data (including sensitive personal data) on students and staff to HESA or to HESA's agents and contractors. SOAS may also gather data on HESA's behalf. These transfers of data are a statutory obligation on higher education institutions, and also a condition of funding from the Funding Councils.
Further information about the transfer of data to HESA and how data are used by HESA is available in the HESA Notices on the SOAS website, and in the Student Data Protection Statement.
Last updated December 2007
