STRANMILLIS UNIVERSITY COLLEGE

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ABOUT THE SURVEY

The survey we are asking you to take part in is a national survey of everyone who has recently qualified from any university or HE college in the UK. The information you provide will also be very useful to us at Stranmillis University College to advise our current students about the opportunities that might be available to them.

Of those who obtained qualifications across the UK in 2005/06, 73.5% responded to the survey. Of these, 66.3% reported that they were working and a further 10.4% were working and studying. 13.2% were undertaking further study only. 5.1% of leavers were assumed to be unemployed. More results can be found at www.hesa.ac.uk/sfr112.

If we don’t hear from you we will try to contact you again, possibly by phone, so please let us know if you change your address or phone number. If we can’t get in touch with you at all, we may try to get information about what you were doing from someone else, either at the College or someone we can reach using the contact information you have previously provided. If you don’t want us to do this, or you don’t want to give us any information at all, please tell us. Below are details about what happens to your information after it is sent to us.

A follow-up survey is planned for three years time so that we can get even more information about the early careers of those with HE qualifications. You might be asked to take part in this follow-up survey as well, which will be carried out by a different organisation. The current survey may also be audited - that is, checked to make sure it has been carried out correctly. If you don’t want to take part in the follow-up survey, or to be contacted during an audit, please let us know. You can also let us know that you do not want to take part in the follow-up survey by ticking the box at the end of the questionnaire.

WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR INFORMATION

When the completed survey is returned to Learning & Student Services, the forms are maintained in a secure file so that your personal details are not disclosed. The information is then coded and entered on a secure database ready for submitting to HESA.  We will use statistical information internally at Stranmillis University College in the following ways:

Annual Report
Mentor Scheme
Careers Office
Leaver's Information Booklet
Departmental Heads

We will send coded information from this form to the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA). By returning this form, you are accepting that this will be linked to other information held about you as a student, including similar coded information you gave when you enrolled, and details of the qualification you gained. HESA will pass your record, or parts of it, to the following organisations that need the information to carry out their statutory functions connected with funding higher education.

• Department for Innovations, Universities and Skills (DIUS)
• Welsh Assembly Government (WAG)
• Scottish Executive (SE) [Scottish Government(SG)]
• Department for Employment and Learning, Northern Ireland (DEL(NI))
• Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)
• Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW)
• Scottish Further and Higher Education Funding Council (SFC)
• Training and Development Agency For Schools (TDA)
• Department of Health (DH)
• Research Councils (RCs)

HESA and the organisations listed above will use the information in your record mainly to produce statistics. This may result in information being published and released to other approved users, including academic researchers and commercial organisations. Your record will not be used in a way that could affect you personally. HESA and the organisations listed above will take precautions to reduce the risk of you being identified from the information once it is published and released.

Under the Data Protection Act 1998, you have the right to a copy of the information HESA holds about you. You will have to pay a small fee for this. If you have any concerns about your information being used for these purposes, please contact HESA.

HESA
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