The data forms part of the student record required by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA). Some providers in England also use the data to support their Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) returns. In July, we informed you that HESA has confirmed there are no changes for UCAS to apply to Star J for 2016.
We plan to make the Star J data for 2016 available in our HEP1 test environment on Friday 16 September 2016.
If you want test data set up for Star J 2016, you must have some placed 2016 applicants in this test environment. Please ensure you have created or requested sufficient test applicants to be available. Test data requests can be submitted via the self service portal, or by completing the order form and emailing it to the HEP Team at hepservicedesk@ucas.ac.uk. The deadline for submitting Star J test data requests is 12:00 on Friday 9 September 2016.
More information and access to the ‘Specification of the UCAS data for HESA (*J) 2016’ is available on the HESA return page on ucas.com.
Further information on using our test environments can be found on the Environments information page on ucas.com.