Disaggregate UKHE Financial Analysis

This is my attempt to make sense of the UK's Higher Education sector funding status via HESA finance data releases.

Software Env Setup

Clone the repo

As this is a public repository, one should be able to clone the repo just using the https url.

git clone https://github.com/mtwest2718/ukhe-finances.git
cd ./ukhe-finance

Because the scripts are pure python, one can either use a python venv or the conda toolset to define an isolated software environment.

Conda

conda env create -f ./environment.yml
conda activate ucu_python

Venv

python -m venv ucu_python
source ./ucu_python/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Plotting Script

Once you have activated the virtual env of choice, now we can run the plotting script.

Each university has a unique identify called it's ukprn and this website provides a hand search function if you don't know what institutions provider number is.

mkdir figures
UKPRN=10007792    # This is the code for University of Exeter
python ./plot_finances.py \
    --input-csv ./kfi.csv \
    --figure-dir ./figures \
    --ukprn $UKPRN