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Introducing Key Information Sets

Introducing Key Information Sets. Professor Janet Beer Chair of the Higher Education Public Information Steering Group. Origins of the KIS. General dissatisfaction with information provision for prospective students and other users

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Introducing Key Information Sets

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  1. Introducing Key Information Sets Professor Janet BeerChair of the Higher Education Public Information Steering Group

  2. Origins of the KIS • General dissatisfaction with information provision for prospective students and other users • Key recommendation of the Oakleigh Consulting and Staffordshire University Research • Identified information that prospective students found useful: • course, costs & employability • Identified where students look for information: • HEI websites and UCAS

  3. Proposed features of the KIS • One KIS for every undergraduate course (a course being something a student applies to) • All HE courses longer than one year FTE • Published on institution’s web-sites and accessible via UCAS • Data renewed once a year • Will be part of QA review

  4. Levels of information on the KIS:

  5. Who provides the information: • HEFCE: NSS for course satisfaction • HESA: DLHEfor employability • Institutions: course information, accommodation & fees/bursaries and scholarships • NUS: students’ union

  6. Creating the KIS Data from: HESA HEFCE Institutions NUS Key Information Sets UCAS Anyone else?

  7. Data provided by institutions: • Five information areas needed from institutions • Do not currently exist in easily comparable and standardised formats • Expert Working Groups have proposed what information should be collected: • Realistic for institutions to collect • Meets the needs of users • Recommendations piloted by seven institutions

  8. Moving forward • HEPSIG to consider outcomes from consultation and KIS development work - KISmock up already out of date • UUK and HEFCE Boards, GuildHE Exec in May • Outcomes circular released Summer • Key information Sets in place September 2012 • information will become subject to QAA judgement

  9. More information: www.hefce.ac.uk/learning/qual/public/infoset.htm Public Information for Higher Education Consultation event

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