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| Title |
Ref/Price |
Date |
Summary |
| HEFCE publications in 1998 |
99/01 |
January |
Lists all publications produced by the HEFCE in the 1998 calendar year. |
| Higher education in the United Kingdom |
99/02 |
January |
A broad overview of the key aspects of higher education in the UK. |
| HESA 1997-98 derived statistics for funding allocations and monitoring |
99/03 |
January |
Describes how we compare data returned in the Higher Education Students Early Statistics survey 1997 (HESES97) with data supplied on the 1997-98 Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) individualised student record. |
| Guidance on base-level provision for disabled students in higher education |
99/04 |
January |
Presents the findings and recommendations of a study of base-level provision for disabled students in higher education institutions. |
| Guidelines for accessible courseware (February) |
99/05 |
January |
Gives guidelines on how to produce computer-based teaching and learning materials that are accessible to all learners, including those with disabilities. |
| Joint Research Equipment Initiative 1998: Awards by HEFCE and DENI |
99/06 |
February |
This document announces the awards by the HEFCE and the Department of Education for Northern Ireland (DENI) for the 1998 Joint Research Equipment Initiative (JREI). |
| Widening participation: special funding programme 1998-99 - outcome of bids |
99/07 |
February |
Allocations for funding to help institutions develop partnerships and strategies that will lay the foundations for widening participation to HE. |
Improving provision for disabled students:
invitation to bid for funds for 1999-2000 to 2001-02 |
99/08 |
February |
Invites institutions to bid for funds to improve their provision for disabled students, to promote and transfer good practice, and to ensure collaboration to make effective use of resources. |
| Review of Chinese studies |
99/09
£5 |
February |
Recommendations on the future provision of Chinese studies, to equip the UK to meet the challenges of growing economic and other links with China. |
| Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs): Bids for funds 1999-2000 |
99/10 |
February |
Invites bids for funds to provide or expand high-speed electronic links between institutions in a region. |
|
Performance indicators in higher education:
first report of the Performance Indicators Steering Group (PISG)
|
99/11
£5 |
February |
First report of the steering group set up to develop performance indicators for the HE sector. |
| Assignment of departments to academic cost centres: 1998-99 |
99/12 |
March |
Gives details of how higher education institutions assigned departments to academic cost centres in returning their statistical data for 1998-99. |
| Recurrent grants for 1999-2000 |
99/13 |
March |
Summarises provisional allocations of recurrent funding and maximum student numbers (MaSNs) to institutions for the academic year 1999-2000. |
| 1999 Mid-year financial return |
99/14 |
March |
Asks institutions to update their forecasts for the financial year 1998-99, originally submitted to the Council in July 1998, and asks for details of net liquidity and guarantees to third parties. |
| Implications of the euro for higher education institutions |
99/15 |
March |
A guide to help managers of HEIs identify the likely impact of the euro on their institution. It sets out the actions that may be required to react to the opportunities and threats created by this key change to the European business environment. |
| Higher Education Reach-out to Business and the Community Fund |
99/16 |
March |
Outlines proposals for a special fund to increase the capability of higher education institutions to respond to the needs of businesses, from large to small companies, and to the needs of the wider community, where this will lead to wealth creation. |
| Good practice in NHS/academic links |
99/17
£10 |
March |
Identifies issues relating to the interface between the NHS and universities, and highlights examples where these issues are being dealt with effectively. |
| Estates management statistics project |
99/18
£15 |
March |
The purpose of the project was to produce an essential management tool for the higher education sector by identifying a framework for the collection and analysis of certain types of data. |
| Non-award bearing continuing education |
99/19
£10 |
March |
A report on the non award-bearing continuing education programme funded by the HEFCE between 1995 and 1998. |
| Learning and teaching support network (LTSN): invitation to bid for funds for subject centres |
99/20 |
March |
Describes the new UK-wide learning and teaching support network for higher education, which aims to promote high quality learning and teaching by providing subject-based support for sharing innovation and good practice. |
| Appraising investment decisions |
99/21 |
March |
Provides advice to help institutions structure their investment decisions. It sets out a framework for the appraisal process which institutions can use for all kinds of decision making. |
| Improving poor estates 99 |
99/22 |
March |
Announces the awards by the HEFCE under its 1999 initiative to improve poor estates. We will fund 41 projects totalling £93 million. |
| About the HEFCE |
99/23 |
April |
An introductory guide to the main activities of the Council and its relationship with higher education institutions and other organisations. (Revised from April 1998) |
| Widening participation in higher education |
99/24 |
april |
Describes the responses to our consultation and outlines decisions on our approach to funding widening participation in higher education; announces related funding allocations; and provides information about the timetable for bidding for special funds and for the development of initial institutional statements on plans for widening participation. |
| Partners and providers |
99/25
£15 |
April |
A study of the role of universities and colleges in providing cultural and sporting facilities to the wider public. |
| Learning and teaching: strategy and funding |
99/26 |
April |
Describes the responses to our consultation about our learning and teaching strategy; announces the allocation of funds within the Teaching Quality Enhancement Fund (TQEF); and provides information about the timetable for bidding for funds. |
| Regional profiles of higher education |
99/27
£25 |
April |
Contains general background information and statistical comparisons between the nine English regions, information on the higher education provision within each region including a map showing the location of each higher education institution. |
| Fund for the development of good management practice: proposals |
99/28 |
April |
Describes our proposals for a new special funding initiative to encourage the development and implementation of good management practices in higher education. And invites comments on the purpose, scope and allocation criteria for the fund. |
| Public supply, works and contracts awarded in 1998 |
99/29 |
April |
Asks institutions to show that they have complied with European Community directives on public procurement, for contracts awarded in the calendar year 1998. |
| 1999 Annual operating statement, planning return and financial forecasts |
99/30 |
April |
Asks institutions to send us updated planning and operating information, including financial forecasts up to 2002-03. |
| HEFCE strategic plan: 1999-2004 |
99/31 |
April |
Sets out the Council's strategic plan for the five year period 1999-2004. For each of the 11 strategic aims, we show outcomes, commitments and key performance targets. |
| Contacts in higher education |
99/32 |
May |
Lists the names and contact addresses of the 135 higher education institutions funded by the Council. Also lists the names of the further education colleges funded for HE courses, and other useful HE contacts. |
| Widening participation in HE: requests for initial statements of plans, and invitation to bid for special funds: 1999-2000 to 2001-02 |
99/33 |
May |
Asks institutions to provide initial statements of their plans for widening participation in higher education, and invites proposals for special funding from 1999-2000 to 2001-02 to help achieve these plans. |
| Restructuring and collaboration: progress report on approved projects |
99/34 |
May |
Summarises the progress of the projects approved under the Council’s Restructuring and Collaboration Fund up until the end of January 1999. It includes contact details to obtain further information on individual projects. |
| Chinese studies: invitation to bid for special funding |
99/35 |
May |
Invites institutions to submit proposals for special funding to strengthen and expand provision for teaching and research in Chinese studies. For this purpose, Chinese studies includes not only language provision and area studies in the traditional sense, but teaching and research in any academic discipline specifically in relation to China. |
| Higher education in further education colleges: guidance to colleges on funding options |
99/36 |
June |
Sets out the options for further education colleges to obtain funding from the HEFCE for their higher education programmes. Explains how we will incorporate within HEFCE funding methods the HE provided by FECs, in a way which will best support quality and standards. |
| Higher education in further education colleges: code of practice on indirectly funded partnerships |
99/37 |
June |
Invites comments on a draft code of practice for indirectly funded partnerships (franchises) entered into by higher education institutions and further education colleges. |
| Additional student numbers for 1999-2000: outcome of bids |
99/38 |
June |
Announces the outcome of the bids for additional student places and funds for 1999-2000. We allocated 44,928 student places in 89 higher education institutions and 133 further education colleges. |
| Use of TLTP materials in the UK |
99/39 |
June |
Evaluation of the use Teaching and Learning Technology Programme materials by institutions. |
| Higher Education Reach-out to Business and the Community Fund: invitation to apply for special funding |
99/40 |
June |
Invites institutions to apply for special funding for activities to increase their capability to respond to the needs of business, including companies of all sizes and the wider community, where this will lead to wealth creation. |
| Funding of specialist performing arts institutions |
99/41 |
June |
Outlines the advice of the Performing Arts Review Panel on funding of four specialist performing arts institutions: Central School of Speech and Drama, Dartington College of Arts, the Northern School of Contemporary Dance, and Rose Bruford College. |
| Increasing medical student numbers in England |
99/42 |
June
|
Announces the allocation of additional medical student numbers in England from 1999-2000, and explains the decision-making process underpinning these allocations. |
| PFI case study: the re-development of the Cruciform Building, UCL |
99/43 |
July |
A Private Finance Initiative case study on the re-development of the Cruciform Building at University College London. |
| Information for students with disabilities: request for disability statements |
99/44 |
July |
Requests HE institutions funded by the HEFCE and DENI to revise, update and publish their disability statements as a condition of their grant. |
| Proposed revisions to the model financial memorandum |
99/45 |
July |
Consults on proposed revisions to the financial memorandum between the HEFCE and the institutions it funds, originally issued in 1996. |
| Holdback of HEFCE grant 1999-2000 |
99/46 |
July |
Explains how we will monitor whether institutions are meeting their funding contract with the Council, and the action we will take if not. |
| Minority subjects: invitation to apply for funds |
99/47 |
July |
Invites applications for special funding to support minority subjects from 2000-01, outside the formula-based allocations of recurrent grant for teaching and research. |
| Teaching Quality Enhancement Fund: funding arrangements |
99/48 |
July |
Describes the funding arrangements for each strand of the Teaching Quality Enhancement Fund (TQEF)and announces the funding arrangements and timetable for: the implementation of institutional learning and teaching strategies, rewards for individual academics who have made outstanding contributions to learning and teaching, phase three of the Fund for the Development of Teaching and Learning (FDTL). |
| Recurrent grants for 1999-2000: final allocations |
99/49 |
August |
Gives our final allocations of recurrent funding to institutions for the academic year 1999-2000. Updates a number of the allocations given in HEFCE 99/13, principally to incorporate the outcomes of the bidding exercise reported in HEFCE 99/38, ‘Additional student places and funds 1999-2000’. |
| Access funds for higher education institutions 1999-2000 |
99/50 |
August |
Sets out the Council’s allocation of Access Funds in 1999-2000 and requests monitoring information on their use. |
| Funding for poor estates: feedback and invitation to bid |
99/51 |
August |
Provides feedback on the second round of bids for HEFCE funds to improve poor estates, in the financial year 1999-2000, and invites bids for the third round for the financial year 2000-01. |
| Project capital allocations 1999-2000 to 2001-02: application for funding |
99/52 |
August |
Describes the funding arrangements for earmarked capital funding for the period 1999-2002. Funding is made up of £90 million to improve the capital and IT infrastructure in support of teaching and learning and £150 million for research capital projects. |
| Public resources for teaching and research in HEFCE-funded institutions: 1998-99 |
99/53 |
August |
Presents the underlying data on which the Council's allocation of funds for teaching in 1999-2000 was based. |
| Developing good management practice: invitation to bid for funds |
99/54 |
August |
Invites bids for funding in the financial year 2000-01 to encourage the development and implementation of good management practices in higher education. |
| Institutional learning and teaching strategies: a guide to good practice |
99/55 |
September |
Provides guidance for institutions in preparing their learning and teaching strategies and their plans for implementation. |
| Additional student places and funds: invitation to bid |
99/56 |
September |
Invites bids for additional student places and funds for 2000-01. Bids may be for full-time or part-time, below-degree, degree or postgraduate taught places. |
| HESES99: Higher Education Students Early Statistics Survey 1999-2000 |
99/57 |
October |
Asks institutions to complete the annual survey on full-time equivalent student load on recognised higher education courses. |
| HEIFES99: Higher Education in Further Education: Students Survey 1999-2000 |
99/58 |
October |
Asks further education colleges to complete a survey of students on recognised courses of higher education. |
| Research Activity Survey 1999 |
99/59 |
October |
Asks higher education institutions to update information on their research activity. |
| Reaching out: Annual Report 1998-99 |
|
October |
|
| Communications and information technology materials for learning and teaching in UK higher and further education |
99/60 |
October |
A study of the production and use of C&IT materials, and their transfer and take-up across the higher and further education sectors. |
| Providing public information on the quality and standards of higher education courses |
99/61 |
October |
A report of an independent study by consultants Segal Quince Wicksteed. The main objectives were to: review stakeholders’ information needs regarding quality and standards of courses; identify current information usage and sources; and recommend how needs can be met within the framework being developed by the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA). |
| Developing a joint university/NHS planning culture |
99/62 |
November |
A report on how to best take account of the interdependency of research, teaching and patient care in the funding of university medical and dental schools in England. |
| HE in FE colleges: code of practice on indirectly funded partnerships |
99/63 |
November |
Provides a code of practice for indirectly funded partnerships (franchising) between HE institutions and FE colleges. |
| A guide to assessing student demand for local HE provision |
99/64
(web only) |
November |
Describes the key elements of the approach, the principles underlying it and the information sources required for assessing demand. Includes a case study of future student demand for higher education in Cornwall. |
| Fighting fraud in higher education |
99/65
(web only) |
November |
Guidance on prevention, detection and investigation of fraud in HE. |
| Performance indicators in higher education in the UK |
99/66
£25 |
December |
The first set of performance indicators to be published for all HE institutions in the UK. They cover: access to HE, non-completion rates, outcomes and efficiencies for learning and teaching, and research output. |
| Performance indicators in higher education in the UK: an overview |
99/67 |
December |
A guide to the purpose and background to the performance indicators exercise. |
| Profiles of higher education institutions |
99/68
£45 |
December |
A detailed description, in text and data, of each of the universities and colleges funded by the HEFCE and the two universities in Northern Ireland. |
| Analysis of the 1999 financial forecasts and operating statements |
99/69 |
December |
Provides an analysis of financial projections for the HE sector covering 1998-99 to 2002 and the operating statements for 1998-99 and 1999-2000. |
| Changing times: the extended academic year experiment (report to the HEFCE by Segal Quince Wicksteed) |
99/70
(web only) |
December |
Describes a project which started in 1995-96 to extend the academic year to the summer period at two HE institutions. |
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