Consultation (http://hediip.ac.uk/subject_coding/) is now open on a new subject coding scheme to replace the current Joint Academic Coding Scheme, JACS 3. Cetis staff, Wilbert Kraan, Adam Cooper, Phil Barker and Lorna Campbell have worked with Alan Paull, Charlie Paull (APS ltd http://www.alanpaull.co.uk/) and Gill Ferrell (Aspire, http://www.aspire-edu.org/) to produce HECoS – the Higher Education Classification of Subjects for the Higher Education Data a