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October 2002/42
Core funding/operations
Report on data for teaching funds

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Public resources for teaching and student numbers in HEFCE-funded institutions: 2001-02

This document presents the underlying data on which our allocations of funds for teaching in 2002-03 were based. The report is a retrospective look at the teaching funds and student numbers in the 2001-02 academic year. It gives details of the student full-time equivalents (FTEs) in each price group, the assumed resource (HEFCE grant plus assumed fee income), and the standard resource for 2001-02 using the current (2002-03) teaching method.

To: Heads of HEFCE-funded higher education institutions
Heads of HEFCE-funded further education colleges
Heads of Northern Ireland universities
Of interest to those responsible for: Finance, Funding, Data
Reference: 2002/42
Publication date: October 2002
Enquiries to: Jenni Barrett, tel 0117 931 7456, e-mail j.barrett@hefce.ac.uk

Executive summary (read on-line)

Annex A - Details of the premiums (read on-line)

 

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Annex B

Executive summary

Purpose

1.    This document presents the underlying data on which our allocations of funds for teaching in 2002-03 were based.

Key points

2.    The report is a retrospective look at the teaching funds and student numbers in the 2001-02 academic year. It gives details of the student full-time equivalents (FTEs) in each price group, the assumed resource (HEFCE grant plus assumed fee income), and the standard resource for 2001-02 using the current (2002-03) teaching method.

3.    A time series is included, comparing resources in the HEFCE teaching model for higher education institutions (HEIs), to show how the values in this document fit with those in institutions' individual grant tables.

Action required

4.    No action is required.

Links to relevant documents

  • Funding higher education in England: how the HEFCE allocates its funds (HEFCE 02/18)
  • Recurrent grants for 2001-02 (March) - HEFCE 01/12
  • Recurrent grants for 2001-02: final allocations (October) - HEFCE 01/57
  • Recurrent grants for 2002-03 (March) - HEFCE 02/11

Annex A

Details of the premiums

1.    The student premiums used in the funding method are as follows:

  1. 25 per cent of subject weighted FTEs for home and EC funded students on long courses in price groups B, C and D.
  2. 5 per cent of unweighted FTEs for home and EC funded part-time students.
  3. 5 per cent of unweighted FTEs for full-time, home and EC funded mature students, defined as 25 or over at the start of their course. This is given irrespective of year of programme of study.

2.    The price group weighting is taken into account in the long course premium but not in the part-time or mature student premiums, which are 5 per cent of the group D price. Clinical courses are assumed to be long, and this is reflected in the price group weighting rather than by giving the long course premium to all price group A students. For this reason the data on course length in price group A are not published.

3.    The institutional premiums used are:

  1. 1.5 per cent of subject weighted FTEs to HEIs that are part of the USS.
  2. 8 per cent of subject weighted FTEs for institutions in inner London and 5 per cent for those in outer London (see Table 5).
  3. Variable percentage (generally 10 per cent) of subject weighted FTEs for specialist institutions. The premiums for specialist institutions are described in HEFCE 00/51 'Funding of specialist higher education institutions'. This premium is restricted to HEIs.
  4. Variable percentage of unweighted FTEs for small institutions. This premium was announced in the electronic publication EP 09/98 and is restricted to HEIs.
  5. Variable percentage of unweighted FTEs for institutions with old and historic buildings. This premium is described in HEFCE 98/72 'Premium for old and historic buildings' and is restricted to HEIs.