Proposed changes to funding for teaching

28 August 2008

HEFCE is consulting on changes to the way it funds teaching. The proposals will improve support for teaching enhancement and widening participation.

The key proposals for consultation are to:

• combine the funding for improving retention, learning, teaching and assessment strategies, and teaching informed and enriched by research, to create a new allocation to support teaching enhancement and student success
• increase the funding for widening access by transferring £30 million from the funding for improving retention
• make changes to the weightings used in the formula for calculating the funding for widening access in order to recognise the costs of working with schools and colleges in the most disadvantaged areas.

The consultation, 'Future support for teaching enhancement and widening participation: Consultation on changes to the teaching funding method' (HEFCE 2008/28) is open now, and closes on 11 November.

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