An analysis of retention within business and finance

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An analysis of retention within business and
finance
Mark Gittoes m.gittoes_at_hefce.ac.uk
BMAF / BERG Workshop 5th January 2007
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Structure

• Trends in BMAF
• Data and its sources
• Factors affecting first year non-continuation
• Subject
• Student
• Institution
• Questions?

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Full-time first degree home students taught in
English BMAF departments
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Data

• Data as used in the production of the Performance
  indicators (PIs)
• PIs, at institution/sector level, cover
• Widening participation
• Employment
• Research quantity and
• Non-continuation.

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Information sources

• Most of the information comes from the Higher
  Education Statistics Agency (HESA) student record
• Each HE institution has to submit details of all
  its students to HESA every year
• Non-continuation indicators rely on tracking
  students from one years HESA record to the next

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Non-continuation PIs

• There are three indicators
• Table T3 shows the percentage of entrants not
  continuing beyond their first year at an
  institution
• Table T4 provides information about those not
  continuing beyond their first year at an
  institution (what proportion returned after one
  year gap)
• Table T5 shows what percentage are projected
  eventually to leave with no qualification, and
  what percentage are projected to obtain a degree

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Non-continuation PIs

• Focus on the first of these (T3 not continuing)
  for
• Full-time
• Entrants in academic year 2003-04
• First-degree
• Registered at UK HEIs
• Examining whether they are still in HE in 2004-05

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Overall non-continuation pattern of2003-04
entrants
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Subject areas
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BMAF subject areas
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Students age
Profile
Not in HE
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Students entry qualifications Profile
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Students entry qualifications not in HE
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Low participation neighbourhood
Profile
Not in HE
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Institutional perspective
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Institutions within BMAF Size
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Institutions within BMAF Type
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Type of HEI Not in HE
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Summary

• BMAF numbers levelling
• Above average non-continuation rate
• Similar non-continuation rates for similar types
  of students
• Different profile of students in terms of entry
  qualifications
• Range of institutional rates, with pre-92 HEIs
  having the lowest in general

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Institutional information

• PI contacts at an institution can obtain other
  information including
• Selected indicators by PI subject
• Selected indicators by students entry
  qualifications
• Published information at
• www.hesa.ac.uk/pi (Current)
• www.hefce.ac.uk/pi (Previous)