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HEFCE Report 00/55

Franchised students 1998-99

Students taught at institutions other than where they are registered

To Heads of HEFCE-funded higher education institutions
and further education colleges in England
Of interest to those responsible for Student data, Audit, Finance, Planning
Reference 00/55
Publication date November 2000
Enquiries to Kathy Christie tel 0117 931 7366
e-mail k.christie@hefce.ac.uk
Libby Aston tel 0117 931 7338
e-mail l.aston@hefce.ac.uk
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Annexes

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Annex A Tables 1A - 4A
Details of students franchised from HEIs		 576K 164K

Table 1 34K
Table 2 45K
Table 3 43K
Table 4 43K

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Annex A Tables 5A - 6A
Details of students franchised from FECs		 30K 8K

Table 5 1K
Table 6 6K

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Annex B
Data extraction methods used for Annex A		 37K 9K 13K 10K

Executive summary

Purpose

1. This document gives details of those higher education students who are registered at one institution but taught at another. All such sub-contractual partnerships will be referred to as franchises. Information is derived mainly from Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) data collections. Franchised students can be taught wholly or partly at the teaching institution. This document makes no reference to HEFCE funding consortia arrangements, details of which can be found in HEFCE 00/54 'HE in FE colleges: Indirectly funded partnerships - codes of practice for franchise and consortia arrangements'.

2. The need for better information about franchised students was recognised in the HEFCE 98/58 'The nature of higher and further education sub-contractual partnerships'.

3. Most franchised higher education (HE) students are registered at higher education institutions (HEIs). The teaching institution is not always publicly funded, and may not be named in the HESA data return.

4. A small number of franchised HE students are registered at further education colleges (FECs). Details of their teaching institutions are derived from the Further Education Funding Council's July 1998-99 individualised student record.

5. Thanks to the efforts of institutions and to our comparison of different data sets, the data are of better quality than in previous years. However, the data should still be treated with caution because of the diversity of franchising arrangements, the different interpretations of the guidance on completing HESA returns, and the complexities of the data extraction methods. These issues are being addressed.

6. For further information on franchising arrangements please refer to the following HEFCE publications:

  1. HEFCE 99/36 'HE in FE colleges: Guidance for colleges on funding options'.
  2. HEFCE 99/37 'HE in FE colleges: Code of practice on indirectly funded partnerships'.

Key points

7. This document describes the characteristics of franchised students and lists the teaching institutions with the corresponding numbers of students.

Action required

8. No action is required: the report is for information