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The Higher Education Access Tracker (HEAT) Service provides a collaborative, high-quality and affordable system, data and tools for evaluation.
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Who we are
We are a non-profit evaluation collaboration of over 100 higher education providers and third sector organisations. As a collective, members own the HEAT Service, which operates on an ‘equal pay, equal say’ basis via an annual subscription.
There are various membership types administered by HEAT, all working together to drive positive change.
Our Service
Through their subscription, members can utilise our broad range of services to help them monitor and evaluate the work they are delivering to mitigate risks to equality of opportunity.
“I have three key aspirations for my time as Director for Fair Access and Participation. The first is unapologetically nerdy: evaluate, evaluate, evaluate. Everyone I have spoken to about this agrees, that for 20 years or more of widening participation work, we have nowhere near 20 years’ worth of evidence about what works. We can’t share what works, and we can’t make it work better, if we don’t actually know what does work!”
John Blake, Director for Fair Access and Participation, Office for Students, Impetus Interview, 14th February 2022
Evaluation and Tracking
HEAT provides systems, data and tools enabling our members to evidence impact and support their evaluation and operational requirements.
We work closely with government agencies and data custodians such as the Office for Students (OfS), the Department for Education (DfE) and the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) to provide access to student outcomes for evaluation.
The HEAT Track
HEAT’s longitudinal tracking, known as the HEAT Track, provides insight into the whole student lifecycle, from school exam attainment through to higher education progression and subsequent graduation and employment.
HEAT Track Impact Reports
HEAT impact reports look at the effect of outreach delivered by our members on the student lifecycle, from access to higher education through to employment.
