HEA Student Data Collection

HEA Student Data Collection

Higher education institutions must provide the HEA Student Data Collection notice to their students.

Article 13 of the General Data Protection Regulation requires information to be provided, or made readily available, to data subjects so that they are not deceived or misled as to the purposes for which their data is to be processed. In order to satisfy this principle, the HEA supply text for use by HEIs.

• The student data collection notice can be supplied to students in any of the following areas:
• Providing the text with the registration form and the HEI's own data protection statement;
• Including the text on a website with the HEI's own data protection information;
• Including the text in a student handbook or other reference source for students.