Heidi Plus
The higher education sector’s leading data visualisation and analytics tool.
Heidi Plus includes up to 12 years of HESA data and is updated on a regular basis to ensure you gain the latest institutional and sector insights. Find and analyse the data you need to drive strategic organisational decisions using interactive data visualisations and dynamic dashboards.
Accessed via Tableau Server, your analysts and planners can build custom benchmark groups and discover business intelligence through time-series analysis. There are also pre-developed Jisc dashboards within the ‘dashboard centre’ to support common sector challenges.
Benefits
- Unlock powerful higher education data insights; students, graduates, staff, finances, estates, community and business interaction and more
- Intuitive drag-and-drop analytics platform
- Create data visualisations and dashboards to inform strategic planning
- 12 years of robust HESA data, quality-assured by our Jisc data specialists
- Choose metrics and filters to suit specific requirements
- Benchmark performance by region, mission group or sector-wide
- Review time-series data analysis
- Action data-driven decisions
About HESA data, powered by Jisc
HESA data is collected by the data collection and statistic directorate in Jisc and is the expert provider of data on the UK higher education sector. The directorate collects, assures, and disseminates data about higher education (HE) in the UK on behalf of statutory bodies. Jisc is the Designated Data Body (DDB) for England.
Product suite
- Heidi Plus Full Access
- Heidi Plus Limited Access
- Heidi Plus Extended Access
| Product name | Type of organisation | HESA data subscription onward data usage |
|---|---|---|
| Heidi Plus Full Access (Cat-1) | Approved (Fee Cap) in England | Agree onward data usage category 1 |
| Heidi Plus Full Access | Approved (Fee Cap) in England | Disagree onward data usage category 1 |
| Heidi Plus Full Access | Full HESA data subscribers in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland | Agree onward data usage category 1 |
| Heidi Plus Limited Access (Cat-1) | Approved, Limited Designation and Teach Out (England only) | Agree onward data usage category 1 |
| Heidi Plus Limited Access | Approved, Limited Designation and Teach Out (England only) | Disagree onward data usage category 1 |
| Heidi Plus Extended Access (Cat-1) | Approved, Limited Designation and Teach Out (England only) | Agree onward data usage category 1 |
| Heidi Plus Extended Access | Approved, Limited Designation and Teach Out (England only) | Disagree onward data usage category 1 |
Heidi Plus products labelled Cat-1 relate to our pricing policy by student number bands and are offered to higher education providers who agree to the HESA data subscription onward data usage category 1.
The other Heidi Plus products relate to our pricing policy that is capped by total number of users and are offered to higher education providers who disagree to the HESA data subscription onward data usage category 1.
Guide to pricing and banding
Heidi Plus Full Access (Cat-1)
Approved (Fee Cap) in England.
Band: HP-A
Number of students: 1 - 1,000
Cost + VAT: £761
Band: HP-B
Number of students: 1,001 - 5,000
Cost + VAT: £1,320
Band: HP-C
Number of students: 5,001 - 10,000
Cost + VAT: £1,878
Band: HP-D
Number of students: 10,001 - 15,000
Cost + VAT: £2,436
Band: HP-E
Number of students: 15,001 - 20,000
Cost + VAT: £2,994
Band: HP-F
Number of students: 20,001 - 25,000
Cost + VAT: £3,553
Band: HP-G
Number of students: 25,001 - 30,000
Cost + VAT: £4,111
Band: HP-H
Number of students: 30,001+
Cost + VAT: £4,669
Annual subscription rate banded by student number range for year 2020/21 (unlimited users and a minimum of two lead contacts)
Heidi Plus Full Access (England)
Approved (Fee Cap) in England.
Band: HP - 1
Number of students: Up to 10 users
Cost + VAT: £5,075
Band: HP - 2
Number of students: 11 - 24 users
Cost + VAT: £9,135
Annual subscription rate banded by number of authorised users (capped at a maximum of 24 users including two lead contacts)
Heidi Plus Full Access (Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland)
Full HESA data subscribers in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Band: HP-A
Number of students: 1 - 1,000
Cost + VAT: £914
Band: HP-B
Number of students: 1,001 - 5,000
Cost + VAT: £1,583
Band: HP-C
Number of students: 5,001 - 10,000
Cost + VAT: £2,253
Band: HP-D
Number of students: 10,001 - 15,000
Cost + VAT: £2,923
Band: HP-E
Number of students: 15,001 - 20,000
Cost + VAT: £3,593
Band: HP-F
Number of students: 20,001 - 25,000
Cost + VAT: £4,263
Band: HP-G
Number of students: 25,001 - 30,000
Cost + VAT: £4,933
Band: HP-H
Number of students: 30,001 +
Cost + VAT: £5,603
Annual subscription rate banded by student number range for year 2020/21 (unlimited users and a minimum of two lead contacts)
VAT is not applicable due to the statutory requirement.
Heidi Plus Limited Access (Cat-1)
Approved, Limited Designation and Teach Out (England only).
Band: HP - AL
Number of students: 1 - 1,000
Cost + VAT: £558
Band: HP - BL
Number of students: 1,001 - 5,000
Cost + VAT: £812
Annual subscription rate banded by student number range for year 2020/21 (unlimited users and a minimum of two lead contacts)
Heidi Plus Limited Access
Approved, Limited Designation and Teach Out (England only).
Band: HP - 1L
Number of students: Up to 10 users
Cost + VAT: £2,030
Band: HP - 2L
Number of students: 11 - 24 users
Cost + VAT: £3,654
Annual subscription rate banded by number of authorised users (capped at a maximum of 24 users including two lead contacts)
Heidi Plus Extended Access (Cat-1)
Approved, Limited Designation and Teach Out (England only).
Band: HP - A-E
Number of students: 1 - 1,000
Cost + VAT: £1,142
Band: HP - B-E
Number of students: 1,001 - 5,000
Cost + VAT: £1,979
Annual subscription rate banded by student number range for year 2020/21 (unlimited users and a minimum of two lead contacts)
Heidi Plus Extended Access
Approved, Limited Designation and Teach Out (England only).
Band: HP - 1-E
Number of students: Up to 10 users
Cost + VAT: £5,075
Band: HP - 2-E
Number of students: 11 - 24 users
Cost + VAT: £9,135
Annual subscription rate banded by number of authorised users (capped at a maximum of 24 users including two lead contacts)
Case study: supporting the humanities and social sciences through data-driven representation
How Heidi Plus is helping the British Academy to access and analyse sector trends, and translate them into visualisations.
Training
We offer a range of interactive courses both live and on-demand throughout the year to suit all levels of Heidi Plus experiences:
- Heidi Plus new user clinics
- Heidi Plus masterclasses
- Heidi Plus e-learning hub
- Mandatory data protection training for Gold users and Lead Contacts 2023
Privacy statement
Our on-demand e-learning content is delivered using a platform called Easygenerator. To access this platform, you will need to provide personal information including your name and email address. This information will allow you to take a break and return to the course in your own time. Only Jisc staff will have access to your personal information, and we will only use this information to administer and monitor the use of our courses.
Please see the Jisc privacy notice for more information on how we process personal data.
Jisc dashboards
A series of pre-developed Jisc dashboards accessible within the ‘dashboard centre’ in Heidi Plus as part of your subscription.
COVID-19 recovery planning
Four interactive dashboard suites, to help the higher education sector tackle the effects of the pandemic. Insights include postgraduate recruitment, offshore student provision, international student impact and UNESCO international student flow. Find out more about how you can use the dashboards for COVID-19 recovery planning.
Finance trends
Two new finance dashboard suites providing analytical insights on income, expenditure and research income. Higher education users can benchmark themselves and compare key financial data over time. This follows feedback from the Heidi Plus user community that the existing finance data was difficult to compare year on year due to each year being published separately. Find out more about the finance trends dashboards.
Interactive insights
These advanced interactive dashboard suites have been co-designed with Jisc HE data experts and dashboard developers alongside sector colleagues to address certain sector challenges. Additional third-party datasets are amalgamated to provide even more meaningful sector intelligence. Available to Heidi Plus subscribers via an annual subscription.
Discover graduate outcomes
An interactive dashboard suite co-designed with graduate career professionals from the higher education sector to help universities analyse the outcomes of their graduates. Insights focus on graduate outcomes and student characteristics enabling year-on-year comparison between two years of HESA data. Find out more about discover graduate outcomes.
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