This is a joint publication by HEFCE (Higher Education Funding Council for England), Universities UK (UUK) and GuildHE, setting out how it is intended to improve the accessibility and usefulness of information about higher education (HE). It includes requirements for the information that universities and colleges should publish about their HE courses. These requirements are based on extensive consultation and research with prospective students, current students, universities, colleges and other interested parties. Appended are: (1) Summary of research and development undertaken; (2) Public information about higher education: summary analysis of consultation responses; (3) Provisional coverage of NSS and DLHE data at JACS level 1 with two-year aggregation for English HEIs; and (4) List of abbreviations. (Contains 5 tables, 1 figure and 19 footnotes.)