Deploy a Data Structure for the United Kingdom

Add region-specific fields and metadata to your org that align with the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) Data Futures specification.

Required Editions

Available in: Lightning Experience
Available in: Enterprise, Unlimited, and Developer Editions with Education Cloud
User Permissions Needed
To set up United Kingdom Compliance and Configuration: Education Cloud Full Access
To configure flows: Manage Flow

If you turn on United Kingdom Compliance and Configuration, you can't turn it off. To see how the data extension affects your org, preview United Kingdom Compliance and Configuration in a sandbox.

  1. From Setup, find and select Set Up Education Cloud.
  2. Under Set Up Region-Specific Data Extensions, turn on United Kingdom Compliance and Configuration.
    Fields that meet the United Kingdom's HESA standard are now available on all affected objects. See Education Cloud Fields on Standard Objects for United Kingdom Compliance and Configuration.
  3. For each object that your institution uses, add a section that shows HESA-aligned fields to its page layout. See Customize Page Layouts with the Enhanced Page Layout Editor.
  4. Create your own active version of the EDU Regional Data Extension: Calculate HESA Student Identifier flow.
    This flow populates each learner's HESA Student Identifier automatically when they enroll in a program.
  5. Set up calculated insights for HESA reporting and intelligence.
    These calculated insights create HESA regulatory values derived from your Agentforce Education data in Data Cloud.
    • HESA Student Language Unified Individual
    • HESA Student Language
    • HESA Academic Term Enrl Learning Program
    • HESA Course Prerequisite