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Sources of funding for Higher Education in the UK

Sources of funding for Higher Education in the UK. Dawn Leeder, RLO-CETL Eddie Gulc, Senior Adviser University of Cambridge Higher Education Academy. CETL Funding 2005 - 2010. HEFCE funded - ~£315 million 81 CETLs funded (7 in NI) Largest ever single T & L intervention

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Sources of funding for Higher Education in the UK

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  1. Sources of funding for Higher Education in the UK Dawn Leeder, RLO-CETL Eddie Gulc, Senior Adviser University of Cambridge Higher Education Academy

  2. CETL Funding 2005 - 2010 • HEFCE funded - ~£315 million • 81 CETLs funded (7 in NI) • Largest ever single T & L intervention • Aim: to improve the status of teaching in HE

  3. RLO-CETL Funding • £3.75 million (capital & recurrent) • Staff Reward & Development ~ £20K per year • Mini-projects ~ £30K per year

  4. Overview of funding sources • Funding Councils • Research Councils • Higher Education Academy • EU Funding • Charitable Trusts

  5. Funding Councils • Funding councils in the UK • Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) £4,510m • Scottish Funding Council (SFC) £1,600m • Higher Education Council - ELWa (Wales) £400m • Department for Employment and Learning (Northern Ireland) ? • Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) £110m • Provides funding for networks and innovative services for HE & FE

  6. JISC Joint Information Systems Committee JISC March 2007 http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities.aspx

  7. JISC services Academy JISC Academic Integrity Service Archives Hub Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) Athens BUFVC (British Universities Film & Video Council) Census Dissemination Unit Copac CrossFire Digimap Collections Digital Curation Centre (DCC) Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS) EDINA Education Image Gallery Eduserv (innovative technology services) ESDS International Film & Sound Online Hairdressing Training Index to The Times 1790-1980 Information Environment Service Registry (IESR) Intute ISI Web of Knowledge Service for UK Education JANET JANET CSIRT JISC CETIS (Centre for Educational Technology Interoperability Standards) JISC Collections JISC infoNet JISC Internet Plagiarism Advisory Service JISC Legal JISC Monitoring Unit JISC RSCs (Regional Support Centres) JISC TechDis Jorum JSTOR Land, Life & Leisure Mimas National Academic Mailing List service (JISCMail) Netskills OSS Watch (open source software advisory service) Procureweb Satellite Image Data Service SUNCAT TASI (Technical Advisory Service for Images) TechWatch (Technology & Standards Watch) Text Mining Centre UK Access Management Federation for Education and Research UK Data Archive (UKDA) UKBORDERS UKOLN Zetoc

  8. Research Councils • Funding for research • Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) • Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) • Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) • Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) • Medical Research Council (MRC) • Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) • Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) • Knowledge Transfer Partnerships

  9. Knowledge Transfer Partnerships Public/private partnership Led by Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Each Partnership is part funded by the Government (balance of costs comes from the company partner) Research Councils all involved with this

  10. Higher Education Academy • National Teaching Fellowship Scheme (NTFS) - £2.5m • NTFS Individuals - 50 x £10K • Projects - up to £200K (9 funded in 2007) • Research Observatory £30K per project • Expressions of interest by 19 March • http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/ourwork/learning/elearning/elro • Professional Recognition (Associates, Fellows, Senior Fellows) • Support (advice, brokerage, advocacy) • Subject Centres • http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/funding

  11. Subject centres Art, Design and Media Bioscience Built Environment (CEBE) Business, Management, Accountancy and Finance (BMAF) Economics Education (ESCALATE) Engineering English Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (GEES) HEALTH Network Group Health Sciences and Practice History, Classics and Archaeology Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism (HLST) Information and Computer Sciences Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies (LLAS) Law (UK Centre for Legal Education - UKCLE) Materials (UK Centre for Materials Education) Maths, Stats & OR Network (MSOR) Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary Medicine (MEDEV) PALATINE - Dance, Drama and Music Philosophical and Religious Studies Physical Sciences Sociology, Anthropology and Politics (C-SAP) Social Policy and Social Work (SWAP)

  12. Subject centres Art, Design and Media Bioscience Built Environment (CEBE) Business, Management, Accountancy and Finance (BMAF) Economics Education (ESCALATE) Engineering English Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (GEES) HEALTH Network Group Health Sciences and Practice History, Classics and Archaeology Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism (HLST) Information and Computer Sciences Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies (LLAS) Law (UK Centre for Legal Education - UKCLE) Materials (UK Centre for Materials Education) Maths, Stats & OR Network (MSOR) Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary Medicine (MEDEV) PALATINE - Dance, Drama and Music Philosophical and Religious Studies Physical Sciences Sociology, Anthropology and Politics (C-SAP) Social Policy and Social Work (SWAP) Mini-Projects up to £3.5K - deadline 11 April http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/funding/detail/fun59 Development Projects up to £5K - deadline 31 March http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/physsci/funding

  13. EU funding • Framework 7 2007 - 2013 • Four principal programmes: • Cooperation € 32.4 billion • help Europe gain leadership in key areas of science & technology by having our best brains from across Europe working together • Ideas € 7.5 billion • to foster competition and excellence in frontier or fundamental research • People € 4.7 billion • fellowships for research training and career development • Capacities € 4.2 billion • to ensure scientific and technological capacity-building, for example in the area of infrastructures or in helping European regions to gear up their scientific potential

  14. Charitable Trusts • Funding with strings… • Eduserv - themes - e.g. online identity • Gatsby Charitable Foundation - science and engineering education • Royal Society - themes - e.g. science in schools • NESTA - mainly for 14 -19 • Wolfson Foundation - buildings, libraries • Wellcome - bioscience • Leverhulme - health • Etc, etc

  15. Global initiatives • Funding without boundaries, but still with strings… • HSBC Global Education Trust • Projects in and out of school which help educate children and young adults aged 3-25 • Development Partnerships in Higher Education programme (DelPHE) • British Council, must meet MDGs • Universities UK International Strategies Group • 5 key areas of international activity: • reputation • policies and strategies • students • information • partnerships and links

  16. The Power of Collaboration • Universities’ Collaboration in e-Learning (UCeL) • 2002 - 2007 (~£90K p.a.) • Centre for Excellence in Reusable Learning Objects (RLO-CETL) • 2005 - 2010 (~£600K p.a.) • Next?… Globalisation International Visiting Fellowships 2009 - 2014 (£, $, € etc…) One thing leads to another… … but be flexible

  17. Be creative! • Don’t ignore bandwagons

  18. Be creative! • Bandwagons contain money…

  19. Others are!

  20. Conclusions • No obvious single solution • Identify opportunities • Show evidence • Match each call to your strengths • Collaborate, network • Talk to people! • Be creative • Be flexible • Evolve, mutate • Anything’s possible…

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