Statistical quality

Data in this dataset differs from the data in the archived dataset titled: Students in Wales with teaching through the medium of Welsh by subject and Welsh speaking ability due to a change from JACS subject coding to HECOS subject coding. More details on the HECOS subject coding can be found on the HESA webpage: https://www.hesa.ac.uk/support/documentation/hecos
From 2020/21, HESA changed the way subjects are classified. The 2019/20 data has been revised and republished along with the 2020/21 data to reflect the new classification variables. 2019/20 data therefore differs from data that was previously published. More information can be found at: https://www.hesa.ac.uk/news/25-01-2022/sb262-higher-education-student-statistics/notes
A student can study modules in multiple subjects, and even multiple subjects within a single module. Any combination of subjects and modules might have some teaching through Welsh. Other publications utilise course subjects rather than module subjects. This means subject numbers and Welsh medium totals may not display in a way which is consistent with Welsh medium and subject numbers elsewhere.

Weblinks

http://gov.wales/statistics-and-research/welsh-higher-education-institutions/?lang=en

Title

Student enrolments in Wales with teaching through the medium of Welsh by HECOS module subject and Welsh speaking ability

Last update

21 September 2023 21 September 2023

Next update

July 2024 (Provisional)

Publishing organisation

Welsh Government

Source 1

Higher education student record, Higher Education Statistics Agency

Contact email

HigherEducationAndStudentFinance.Stats@gov.wales

Languages covered

English and Welsh

Data licensing

You may use and re-use this data free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government License - see http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence

General description

This data provides information on students taught through the medium of Welsh at Higher Education Institutions in Wales.

The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) collect data on students, staff and resources of higher education institutions (HEIs) in the UK. The data presented in this table is taken from HESA's Student Record which contains information on all students enrolled on credit bearing courses at UK HEIs. Further information about HESA and their data collections can be found on their website www.hesa.ac.uk

This is a new dataset, it differs from the data in the archived dataset titled: Students in Wales with teaching through the medium of Welsh by subject and Welsh speaking ability due to a change from JACS subject coding to HECOS subject coding. More details on the HECOS subject coding can be found on the HESA webpage: https://www.hesa.ac.uk/support/documentation/hecos

The Student Record contains information about individual enrolments, which, because a student can be enrolled on more than one programme of study, will exceed the number of students. However, previous analysis has shown that for Welsh HEIs full-time enrolments are less than 1 per cent higher than full-time student numbers; part-time enrolments are less than 2 per cent higher than part-time student numbers.

Postdoctoral students are not included in the HESA Student Record.

Students being taught through the medium of Welsh are defined as students studying at least one module with a non-zero proportion of teaching through the medium of Welsh. See dimension notes for more detail.

Data collection and calculation

Source: Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) Student Record.
Contact: HigherEducationAndStudentFinance.Stats@gov.wales

Welsh medium subjects data is calculated on a module by module basis. A student can study modules in multiple subjects, and even multiple subjects within a single module. Any combination of subjects and modules might have some teaching through Welsh. This means it is not possible to report subject numbers in a way which is consistent with the Welsh-medium totals elsewhere and where the percentage of students studying a subject through Welsh is accurate. We have chosen to make the percentages accurate.
Subjects reported in Full-Person Equivalents (FPE), split each student across the subjects they study. If a student’s course was half Maths and half Law, they would count as half a student (0.5) studying Maths and half a student studying Law. Once a student’s subjects are calculated in Full-Person Equivalents, we check if any part of a subject was studied Welsh. This means if half a student’s course is Maths (0.5 FPE), and they study some Maths through the Welsh-medium, then they also count as half a student studying Maths through Welsh (0.5 FPE).

Frequency of publication

Annual

Data reference periods

The HESA standard registration population is a count of all enrolments within the reporting year 1 August to 31 July. Students who leave within 2 weeks of their start date, or anniversary of their start date, and are on a course of more than two weeks duration, are not included in the standard registration population. Dormant students, incoming visiting and exchange students from overseas and students studying for the whole of their programme of study outside of the UK are also excluded from this population.

Rounding applied

The presentation of figures in this table follows the principals of the HESA rounding strategy. The strategy is intended to prevent the disclosure of personal information about any individual. This strategy involves rounding all numbers to the nearest 5. A summary of this strategy is as follows:
• Numbers less than 2.5 are rounded to 0 and represented as '.'
• All other numbers are rounded to the nearest 5

Total figures are also subject to this rounding methodology; the consequence of which is that the sum of numbers in each row or column may not match the total shown precisely.

Name

EDUC0145