What will Study Higher do with your data?
Study Higher will collect and process your student data and survey responses which will be stored on
a database in accordance with the UK Data Protection Act 2018 and used to administer participation in the
activity you have attended. The personal data that we ask you for, such as name, date of birth, and your
home postcode, we will use to link your information to data held in national datasets so that we can see
whether our activities have an effect upon your later educational and employment outcomes. As part of
our evaluation, and the wider NCOP evaluation, your data may be shared with:
- The Office for Students (OfS)
- The Higher Education Access Tracker (HEAT)
- The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA)
- National Pupil Database (NPD)
- University and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS)
- CFE Research (NCOP national evaluator)
- Other participating Higher Education Institutions, Further Education Colleges and other Associate Partners. For a full list of partners please see www.studyhigher.ac.uk/about-us/our-partners or ask a member of the Study Higher team and they will make a list available to you.
Your data will be used to help evaluate the effectiveness of our activity as part of the government
policy to widen participation in higher education and to develop future policy. We will ask for feedback about the activities you take part in, now and for any future Study Higher activities, to help us evaluate and improve our activities for the future.
Under the UK Data Protection Act 2018 you have the right to a copy of the data held about you by us. If you have any questions about the use of your data for these purposes or would like a copy of the data you have supplied directly to us, requests should be made in writing to Information Compliance Team, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford Brookes Information Systems (OBIS), Room 2.12, Gibbs Building, Headington Campus, Gipsy Lane, Oxford, OX3 0BP or via email to info.sec@brookes.ac.uk
Once the Study Higher programme is completed we will securely delete the data you have supplied. A
copy of your data will be retained for longer-term tracking of your educational and employment
outcomes by some of our partners through HEAT. Our National funders - OfS - may also retain some of
your data for future tracking purposes. If in the future you want your data to be removed from this
dataset please contact the OfS at dp@officeforstudents.org.uk and HEAT at:
http://heat.ac.uk/contact/
More information
If you have any questions about the data we are collecting and how it will be used please ask a
member of the Study Higher team, or see the data information page on the Study Higher website
https://www.studyhigher.ac.uk/data?frmProto=http