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How the main HEFCE teaching grant is calculated Thom Brain Funding Round Project Manager

How the main HEFCE teaching grant is calculated Thom Brain Funding Round Project Manager. Purpose of this session. Explain how the data submitted in HESES are used in the mainstream teaching funding model

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How the main HEFCE teaching grant is calculated Thom Brain Funding Round Project Manager

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  1. How the main HEFCE teaching grant is calculated Thom Brain Funding Round Project Manager

  2. Purpose of this session • Explain how the data submitted in HESES are used in the mainstream teaching funding model • Explain how the data submitted in HESES are used in the calculations of adjustments to grant • Opportunity to ask questions

  3. Overview of presentation • Mainstream teaching grant: overview of funding method • Funding agreements, recruitment and grant adjustments • Examples • General questions

  4. Mainstream teaching grant: overview of funding method

  5. Mainstream teaching grant: principles • Similar activity is funded at similar rates, with variations based on explicit and justifiable reasons • Institutions wishing to expand should apply to HEFCE for additional student numbers

  6. Mainstream teaching grant: key terms • Standard resource: A notional resource level calculated by our funding model • Assumed resource: Actual HEFCE grant + our assumption of fee income • Tolerance band: A 5% band around standard resource • Migration: The process by which we move institutions that were originally outside the tolerance band to within it over an agreed period of time

  7. Students funded by mainstream HEFCE teaching grant • Home & EC students who are: • not funded by another EC public source • on a course open to any suitably qualified candidate • at least 0.03 FTE (approx 1 week full-time study) • on a recognised course of HE

  8. Mainstream teaching: price groups • A 4 (Clinical) • B 1.7(Science, engineering & technology) • C 1.3 (Other high cost subjects with a studio, laboratory or fieldwork element) • D 1 (All other subjects)

  9. Mainstream teaching: student-related factors Factor Premium Part-time students 10% Students on foundation 10% degrees Long courses (45 weeks +) 25%

  10. Mainstream teaching: institutional factors Factor Premium Inner London 8% Outer London 5% Specialist institutions Variable Small institutions Variable Old & historic buildings Variable

  11. Mainstream teaching: calculation of standard resource • Calculate total weighted FTE for each institution, using price group and student-related weights • Multiply total weighted FTE by base price (standard unit price for 1 weighted FTE) • Base price for 2006-07 is £3,721

  12. Mainstream teaching:calculation of base price • Calculate total mainstream resource (including fee income) for sector • Calculate total weighted FTE for sector • Base price is: Total resource Total weighted FTE • Base price is recalculated each year

  13. Mainstream teaching: assumed resource • Assumed resource = HEFCE grant + assumed fee income • Mainstream HEFCE grant rolls forward from one year to the next, with adjustments for, for example: • Inflation • Holdback, ASN funding, transfers • Migration • Fee assumptions per FTE for 2006-07: • FTS and PT UG £1,200 • SWOUT UG £1,200 • PGT subject to regulated fees £1,200 • Other FT PGT £3,721 • Other PT PGT £4,093

  14. Mainstream teaching: migration • We express the difference between assumed resource and standard resource as a percentage of standard resource • We want an institution’s assumed resource to be within ±5% of standard resource • Migration through additional funding (for those below the band) or increasing student numbers (for those above it) • Institutions are only eligible for migration funding to the extent that their position outside the tolerance band is due to changes to the funding method, rather than their own recruitment behaviour

  15. Funding agreements, recruitment and grant adjustments

  16. Funding agreements • Three controls: • The contract range • Funding conditional upon delivery of growth • The medical and dental contract FTE (CFTE)

  17. The contract range (1) • Applies to all institutions • Expressed as percentage range • for example: -5% to +5% • Refers to the percentage difference of actual (assumed) resource to standard resource • does not mean the percentages by which institutions can vary their overall recruitment levels

  18. The contract range (2) • We use HESES data to: • Recalculate 2006-07 standard resource • Recalculate 2006-07 assumed fee income • Recalculate 2006-07 assumed resource • We compare recalculated standard and assumed resource • If new percentage difference is outside contract range, institution may be liable to holdback • For 2006-07, holdback only for those above their contract range • Institutions also have second chance to recover 2005-06 contract range holdback if its reinstatement keeps the institution in its contract range

  19. The contract range (3) • Compliance with the contract range is affected by: • Overall recruitment levels • The mix of students between price groups • The mix of students between modes • The mix of students between levels • A template is available to help institutions assess the effects of different recruitment positions

  20. Funding conditional upon delivery of growth (1) • Applies to institutions that are expected to increase recruitment in 2006-07 as a result of a successful bid for additional student numbers • Expressed as FTE targets for total HEFCE-fundable student numbers • Holdback of ASN funding if targets not met • Institutions get two chances to deliver growth

  21. Funding conditional upon delivery of growth (2) • Baseline FTEs • First (lower) target: to recover ASN funding previously deducted for not delivering sufficient growth in 2005-06 • Second (higher) target: to avoid holdback of 2006-07 ASN funding

  22. Funding conditional upon delivery of growth (3) Academic year

  23. Funding conditional upon delivery of growth (4) • Baseline FTEs go up: • To reflect additional funded places delivered the previous year • For other additional funded places awarded outside the mainstream bidding exercises (eg for medical intakes or ITT diversification) • For institutional transfers • Baseline FTEs go down: • For institutional transfers

  24. Grant adjustments • Grant adjustment rules published in July • Provisional grant adjustment reports issued in December • Institutions have opportunity to appeal in January • Final grant adjustment reports issued in February

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