2010-11 funding allocations

Funds for 2010-11 (March 2010)

The total HEFCE grant available for the 2010-11 academic year is £7,356 million. This total includes:

These figures are correct as of March 2010. In July 2010 we announced revised allocations incorporating additional funding of £152 million for the University Modernisation Fund (UMF) and a reduction of £82 million from our baseline teaching grant. These changes arose from the revised grant letter to us from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills of 24 June 2010.

The revised total for teaching is now £4,719 million (arising from an addition of £44 million for the teaching grant element of the UMF and a £52 million reduction to the recurrent teaching baseline).

The revised total for earmarked capital is £532 million, because of the reduction of £30 million in teaching capital.

There are also additional sums for the UMF of £88 million to support efficiency projects and £20 million for shared services.

The total available for distribution is therefore £7,426 million.  

July 2010

In July institutions receive a set of individualised grant tables, incorporating any changes since the March announcement, along with funding agreements.

March 2010

In March each year institutions receive a set of individualised grant tables along with a grant letter and technical guidance which give a comprehensive explanation of the contents of the tables.

Student number control

In 2009-10, in response to a request from Government, we introduced a limit on full-time undergraduate and postgraduate Professional Graduate Certificate in Education entrants. Its purpose has been to reduce the risk of over-recruitment that might lead to a transfer of HEFCE grant back to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills to meet consequent unanticipated student support costs. We are changing the way we specify the limit for 2010-11 to make it easier for institutions to monitor against their offers of places to prospective students for the coming academic year and to restrict the control to a smaller population – those fundable by HEFCE. We wrote to institutions in February to provide full details of the control and provide a provisional limit.

Note on available documents

The recurrent grant tables differ slightly for higher education institutions and further education colleges but the grant tables given below are for the sector as a whole.

The teaching funding templates form a subset of these tables and contain extra sheets that institutions can use to model outcomes of different patterns of student recruitment (including potential indicative grant adjustments).

Queries from institutions should be addressed to the HEFCE higher education policy adviser for their institution. Contact details are available in our searchable staff list. 

Teaching funding

Funds for research

Our mainstream QR funding is allocated selectively according to quality. The documents below provide a more detailed breakdown of these funds.