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‘Advanced’ HESES and HEIFES seminar

‘Advanced’ HESES and HEIFES seminar. Aston University 18 July 2012. Programme for the day. Approximate timings 10.00 Introduction 10.15 Definitions of old-regime and new-regime 11.15 Tea/coffee break 11.30 The student number control and fundability status 12.30 Lunch

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‘Advanced’ HESES and HEIFES seminar

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  1. ‘Advanced’ HESES and HEIFES seminar Aston University 18 July 2012

  2. Programme for the day • Approximate timings • 10.00 Introduction • 10.15 Definitions of old-regime and new-regime • 11.15 Tea/coffee break • 11.30 The student number control and fundability status • 12.30 Lunch • 13.15 Other changes to HESES and HEIFES • 14.15 Tea/coffee break • 14.30 Any other questions: panel session • 16.00 Close

  3. HEFCE staff at this event • Presenters • Toby West-Taylor, Head of Funding • Christine Daniel, Analyst • Supported by • Mario Ferelli, Head of Analytical Services • Tony Ryan, Senior Analyst • And a number of others…

  4. Old-regime & new-regime students

  5. Old-regime and new-regime • Purpose • To identify which students attract higher, historic rates of HEFCE funding for the institution and which attract new, lower rates of funding • Some changes to the definition since HESES11/HEIFES11 • To ensure greater consistency with the student support regulations – though one difference remains • Applies to all categories of student, not just those covered by the regulated fee regime and publicly funded student support • Not a part of the student number control definition • Charging ‘new-regime’ fees to a student who in 2012-13 is subject to the fee/student support regulations that apply to those who entered before 1 September 2012 would be a ‘top-up’ fee

  6. Definition of old-regime • Year of instance/programme of study is old-regime if the student: • Is in receipt of student support in 2012-13 that reflects entitlements that apply to students who commenced their studies prior to 1 September 2012 and they did not commence their study in 2011-12 and intermit within two weeks of starting, before returning to study in 2012-13; or[Italicised wording new for 2012] • Is not being charged regulated fees for the year of instance under the fees regime being introduced from September 2012, and is: • Continuing, or • On an ‘end-on course’, where the previous/original course commenced before 1 September 2012, or • Transferring

  7. Students in receipt of student support (1) • Students that are ‘old-regime’ for student support purposes are old-regime for HEFCE funding purposes except where our ‘two-week rule’ applies • The ‘two-week rule’ • A student who commenced study in 2011-12, but intermitted within two weeks and then returns to study in 2012-13 is new-regime for HEFCE funding purposes • Only applies to students starting in 2011-12, not those continuing in 2011-12 from an earlier year • Applies to all categories of students, whether or not in receipt of student support

  8. Students in receipt of student support (2) • The ‘two-week rule’ • Students who attend for two weeks are required to be included in the HESA student record and count towards the student number control • We wish to avoid having students reported as old-regime in 2012-13 when there is no record of previous study • For student support purposes, suspension of studies should generally be for exceptional reasons • Institutions will have sufficient resources to support such students when they resume their studies

  9. Withdrawals, suspensions and transfers • For student support purposes: • Where students stop studying and then do more studies after 1 September 2012, institutions have some discretion over whether students are treated as ‘old-regime’ or ‘new-regime’ • New-regime if the student is treated as having withdrawn from their course when they previously stopped • Old-regime if the student is treated as having suspended their studies, or transferred courses • For HEFCE funding purposes: • Treatment of students as being old-regime or new-regime will depend firstly on their treatment for student support purposes • Except for HEFCE’s ‘two-week rule’

  10. Students not in receipt of student support (1) • HEFCE’s definitions of continuing, end-on course and transferring apply • Continuing • Student is aiming for the same qualification aim in the same subject and mode of study as they were before 1 September 2012 • Any break in study for the student meets HEFCE’s rules on intermissions • Students aiming solely for credit in 2011-12 will not normally be treated as continuing in later years

  11. Students not in receipt of student support (2) • HEFCE’s definitions of continuing, end-on course and transferring apply • End-on course • An honours degree taken immediately after successful completion of an HNC, CertHE, HND, DipHE, Foundation Degree, ordinary degree • No other combinations of qualification count as end-on • In the same mode of study • With no break in study other than for normal vacations • Does not have to be at the same institution, a ‘top-up’ course or even in the same subject

  12. Students not in receipt of student support (3) • HEFCE’s definitions of continuing, end-on course and transferring apply • Transferring • On the recommendation of the academic authority, a student ceases one course before its completion and starts another • Transfer within the institution: agreed by the institution • Transfer between institutions: agreed by both institutions • In the same mode and level of study • Any break in study for the student meets HEFCE’s rules on intermissions • Does not have to be at the same institution, in the same subject, or have the same qualification aim

  13. Students not in receipt of student support (4) • HEFCE’s definitions of continuing, end-on course and transferring apply • Intermitting • Relevant only to continuing and transferring students (not to end-on courses) • An intermission of no more than 12 months plus any normal vacation • An intermission of no more than 24 months plus any normal vacation where it relates to the period between Parts 1 and 2 of ARB-registrable architecture courses • An intermission of no more than 12 months plus any normal vacation for those intercalating in a medical/dental/veterinary science degree

  14. Students not in receipt of student support (5) • HEFCE’s definitions of continuing, end-on course and transferring apply • Same mode • If a student changes mode, they are ‘new-regime’ • But for this purpose (only) treat a student as if there were studying full-time if they are: • On a sandwich year-out • Repeating part of their FT course on a PT basis at the same institution and retain their previous entitlement to FT student support • On the final year of a FT course that is completed in less than 24 weeks

  15. Definition of new-regime • Year of instance/programme of study is new-regime if the student: • Is being charged ‘new-regime’ fees • For part-time students, this means they are eligible to apply for a tuition fee loan under the student support regulations • Is covered by HEFCE’s ‘two-week rule’ • Does not meet the definition of old-regime

  16. The student number control and the definitions of HEFCE fundable & non-fundable

  17. Student number control: definition (1) • For most institutions: • HEFCE-fundable or employer co-funded FT UG students active in the academic year 2012-13 and: • They are not on a course leading on successful completion to first registration as a doctor or dentist • Their qualifications and grades on entry are not equivalent to AAB+ at A-level • They were not HEFCE-fundable or employer co-funded FT UG students of the same institution in either or both of 2010-11 or 2011-12 • Plusstudents starting a HEFCE-fundable FT PGCE • And in each case the student has not withdrawn within 2 weeks

  18. Student number control: definition (2) • For certain specialists in the performing and creative arts recruiting mainly on the basis of audition/portfolio: • HEFCE-fundable or employer co-funded FT UG students active in the academic year 2012-13 and: • They were not HEFCE-fundable or employer co-funded FT UG students of the same institution in either or both of 2010-11 or 2011-12 • Plusstudents starting a HEFCE-fundable FT PGCE • And in each case the student has not withdrawn within 2 weeks

  19. Student number control: definition (3) • Terms used in the definition • Full-time: includes students who do not meet the HEFCE definition of FT, but who are in receipt of FT student support • Employer co-funded: students aiming for the same qualification at the same institution on an instance that prior to 2012-13 counted towards the delivery of funding or student number targets relating to co-funded provision • Students that were not HEFCE-fundable/employer co-funded FT UGs in either of the 2 preceding years: except where they withdrew (on each occasion) within 2 weeks or were otherwise dormant throughout the year(s) • The same institution: the ‘registering’ institution responsible for reporting the student to HESA/Data Service ILR

  20. Student number control: definition (4) • Terms used in the definition • AAB+ equivalent • Meeting HEFCE’s definition of equivalences to AAB+ at A-level • Institutions do not have discretion to determine their own equivalences for SNC purposes • HEFCE’s definition is solely for SNC purposes • It is not appropriate for institutions to use HEFCE’s list of AAB+ equivalences for other purposes, such as determining suitability for admission of students, or eligibility for fee waiver, bursary or scholarship schemes • Use the Learning Records Service to help identify entry qualifications (www.learningrecordsservice.org.uk)

  21. Student number control: definition (5) • Terms used in the definition • HEFCE-fundable • Home and EU students that are not non-fundable • A number of changes to the definition as a result of the change to the fee and funding regime from 2012-13 • Priority is to minimise the risk of a significant increase in students that may be classified as non-fundable, and thus outside the student number control, but which may still represent a potential liability on the student support budget

  22. HEFCE non-fundable: definition (1) • Changes since HESES11/HEIFES11 • Students funded from another EU public source • Old definition relating to students whose places are funded at standard HEFCE rate or higher by another EU public source now applies only to old-regime students • Use HEFCE phase-out funding rates published on our web-site to identify standard HEFCE rates • An Excel template will be available on our web-site to help determine how many students on a course can be returned as fundable and how many as non-fundable • Undergraduate and postgraduate taught students at the Open University who are domiciled in Scotland or Wales • May be extended from 2013-14 (HESES Table 7) to those domiciled in Northern Ireland

  23. HEFCE non-fundable: definition (2) • Changes since HESES11/HEIFES11 • Students funded from another EU public source • The following are all still non-fundable: • All students on ITT (QTS) and INSET (QTS) courses • All students on pre-registration nursing or midwifery courses and courses leading to a recognised professional qualification in dietetics, speech & language therapy, chiropody/podiatry or prosthetics and orthotics still non-fundable • But new categories of non-fundable students on courses that are NHS-funded

  24. HEFCE non-fundable: definition (3) • Changes since HESES11/HEIFES11 • New non-fundable categories of students on NHS-funded courses • New-regime students on courses provided under a contract with an NHS organisation leading to professional registration as a dental hygienist/dental therapist, occupational therapist, operating department practitioner, orthoptist, physiotherapist, radiographer, radiotherapist [late change to circular letter 15/2012] • Students on a course commissioned and funded by an NHS organisation, where the tuition fee charged to the student is zero, because that NHS organisation is meeting the tuition costs of the course [further change subsequent to circular letter 15/2012]

  25. HEFCE non-fundable: definition (4) • Changes since HESES11/HEIFES11 • Employer co-funded students • Applies to students aiming for the same qualification at the same institution on instances that prior to 2012-13 counted towards the delivery of funding or student number targets relating to employer co-funding • If the employer has stopped funding a continuing student’s place from 2012-13, the student is still treated as employer co-funded and non-fundable

  26. HEFCE non-fundable: definition (5) • Changes since HESES11/HEIFES11 • Students on closed courses • Courses that are not generally available to any suitably qualified candidate, but instead are available only to employees of particular companies/organisations, that are meeting the costs of students’ studies: • There will not be many on the course who are claiming student support • Closed courses commonly not marketed or advertised in general prospectuses or in course searches on an institution’s main web-site • Course content commonly tailored towards the needs of the particular employers concerned

  27. HEFCE non-fundable: definition (6) • Changes since HESES11/HEIFES11 • Students aiming for an equivalent or lower qualification (ELQ) unless exempt from the policy are still non-fundable • No change to our definitions for 2012-13, but • Note that there are differences between HEFCE funding rules and student support regulations in the definition of an ELQ and in the exemptions that apply

  28. HEFCE non-fundable: definition (7) • Changes since HESES11/HEIFES11 • Students franchised out to an institution that is not a publicly-funded HEI or FEC • Institutions previously had to seek our permission to record such students as fundable • For new-regime students, permission no longer required: they’re fundable (unless non-fundable for another reason) • But institutions should ensure they don’t report validation-only arrangements

  29. Validation-only v Franchise • An either/or categorisation – no middle ground • Validation-only • An HEI provides assurance about the standards of a higher education qualification/award, but the student is, for all purposes, a student of the institution providing the teaching and with whom they will be registered • Teaching institution responsible for the quality of teaching and including the student in data returns • Franchise arrangement • A student is taught under a sub-contractual arrangement by an institution other than the one they are registered with • Franchiser will sometimes be the validating body • Franchiser responsible for the quality of teaching and including the student in data returns

  30. Who reports which students? • Institutions must ensure that no student is included on more than one institution’s return to HEFCE for a single year of instance/programme of study • Applies also to joint awards • Connected undertakings of HEIs • For the purposes of the student number control and for reporting student data, students registered at an institution’s connected undertakings must be included with students registered at the institution • Except where those connected undertakings are subject to a separate funding agreement directly with HEFCE

  31. Connected undertakings of HEIs (1) • Definition • An undertaking will be regarded as connected if: • The institution controls that undertaking • The institution and another undertaking or other undertakings connected with the institution together control that undertaking. • Another undertaking or other undertakings connected with the institution control that undertaking. • That undertaking is recognised by us as a connected institution as defined by section 27 of the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998. Or • We consider that the sole purpose, or one of the main purposes, of registering students at that undertaking is to avoid those students being included within the institution's student number control limit

  32. Connected undertakings of HEIs (2) • Definition (continued) • An "undertaking" includes a body corporate, a partnership, an unincorporated association or a trust • An undertaking is under the "control" of another if any of the following apply: • That other holds a majority of the shares in the undertaking • That other holds a majority of the voting rights in the undertaking • That other has the right to appoint or remove a majority of the board of directors or other governing body of the undertaking • That other has the right to exercise dominant influence over the undertaking by virtue of provisions contained in the undertaking's articles of association or any other constitution, control contract, memorandum of understanding or other document regulating the undertaking or any other undertaking

  33. Connected undertakings of HEIs (3) • Definition (continued) • An undertaking is under the "control" of another if any of the following apply: • That other has the right to a share of more than half the assets, or of more than half the income, of the undertaking • Both are managed on a uniform basis. Or • That other has the power, by any other means, to secure that the affairs of the undertaking are conducted in accordance with its wishes • The expressions "voting rights in an undertaking", "right to appoint or remove a majority of the directors", "right to exercise a dominant influence" and "control contract" have the meanings given in schedule 7 to the Companies Act 2006

  34. The student number control • What it’s not • Defined in terms of new-regime students • Applies largely to new-regime students, but will also include some old-regime students • Defined in terms of entrants • Applies largely to entrants, but will also include students previously studying at the institution who have: • Switched from a non-fundable to fundable category • Switched from part-time to full-time • Taken more than two years out

  35. The student number control • If institutions over-recruit • We will reduce grant in respect of each excess student recruited • Institutions should plan on the basis that the rate of grant reduction will exceed the tuition fee income for the excess students • We will not count excess students towards our funding for new-regime students in high cost subjects • We will attribute over-recruitment pro rata to FT UGs in price groups B to D • These adjustments will be repeated in the following years, subject to rules on ‘offset’ • Any offset monitored for the following two years

  36. The student number control • If institutions recruit below their limit • We will not reduce grant specifically for this reason, though • Grant reductions may arise from our three-stage recalculation of teaching grant • Grant reductions may arise if institutions have not sufficiently offset previous over-recruitment • But we may reduce future control limits and/or exclude the institution from eligibility for 2013-14 ‘margin’ places if the recruitment below the limit is significant (by more than 5% and 25 students, after allowing for any expected offset) • We do not consider it to be in prospective students’ interests if significant numbers of places remain unfilled

  37. Medical and dental intake targets • Monitored through the Medical and Dental Students (MDS) survey • We will provide fuller guidance for the 2012 survey • We will not count students recruited in excess of the intake targets towards our funding for new-regime students in high cost subjects • We do not wish to give institutions any advantage through HEFCE grant from exceeding their intake targets • We will calculate a reduction to the student numbers we count towards the high cost subjects allocation • This will apply for 5 years • There will be no opportunity for offset • There will be no tolerance for any over-recruitment

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