Report 01/51

Public resources for teaching and student numbers in HEFCE-funded institutions: 2000-01

Executive summary (read on-line)

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

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Executive summary

Purpose

1. This document presents the underlying data on which our allocations of funds for teaching in 2001-02 were based.

Key points

2. The report is a retrospective look at the teaching funds and student numbers in the 2000-01 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 2000-01 using the current (2001-02) 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.

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Links to relevant documents

• 'Public resources for teaching and student numbers in HEFCE-funded institutions: 1999-2000' (HEFCE 00/45)
• 'Funding higher education in England: how the HEFCE allocates its funds' (HEFCE 01/14)
• 'Recurrent grants for 2000-01' (March) - HEFCE 00/12
• 'Recurrent grants for 2000-01: final allocations' (August) - HEFCE 00/34
• 'Recurrent grants for 2001-02' (March) - HEFCE 01/12

Annex A

Details of the premiums

1. The student premium weights 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 weightings rather than by giving the long course premiums 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. 2 per cent to HEIs that are part of the USS and 0.5 per cent to HEIs that are not part of the USS. The distribution of students across the price groups is taken into account. This premium does not apply to FECs.
2. 8 per cent for institutions in inner London and 5 per cent for those in outer London (see Table 3). The distribution of students across the price groups is taken into account.
3. Premium for specialist institutions, which are described in the report on 'Funding of specialist higher education institutions' (HEFCE 00/51). This premium is restricted to HEIs and is a variable percentage (usually 10 per cent) of the FTE weighted by price group.
4. Small institutions premium, announced in the electronic publication EP 09/98. This premium is restricted to HEIs.
5. Premium for institutions with old and historic buildings (HEFCE 98/72). This premium is restricted to HEIs.