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The grade shown in the RAE column is the product of these two stages – i.e. the quality score is multiplied by the staff submitted as a proportion of the estimated staff eligible.

Source: Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) and HESA 2007/08.

Entry Standards

Mean tariff point scores on entry for first year, first degree students under 21 years of age based on A and AS Levels and Highers and Advanced Highers only. Entrants with zero tariffs were excluded from the calculation. Source: HESA 2007/8.

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Student-staff ratio

The number of students at each institution as defined in the HESA Session HE and FE populations as an FTE (full-time equivalent) divided by the number of staff FTE based on academic staff including Teaching Only and Teaching & Research staff but excluding Research Only staff. Atypical staff are included in this calculation. Source: HESA 2007/8.

Services and Facilities Spend

A two year average of expenditure on Academic Services and Staff & Student Facilities, divided by the total number of full time equivalent students. Source: HESA 2005/6 and 2006/7.

Completion

Percentage of students projected to leave with a degree including students who transfer to other institutions. The HESA Performance Indicator uses current movements of students to project the eventual outcome. The measure used in the table projects what proportion of students will eventually gain a degree, what proportion will leave their current university or college but transfer into higher education and is presented as a proportion of students with known data. Source: HESA Performance Indicators published June 2008 (table T5 - uses 2006/7 entrant cohort).

Good Honours

The number of students who graduated with a first or upper second class degree as a proportion of the total number of graduates with classified degrees. Enhanced first degrees, such as a MEng gained after four-year engineering course were treated as equivalent to a first or upper second. Source: HESA 2007/8.

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