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HEFCE Priorities

HEFCE Priorities. John Rushforth Director. Overview. Context Progression Retention Enhancement Funding. Key Challenges for the Sector. Quality student learning experience for a student population with increasingly diverse needs. Ensure access and progression.

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HEFCE Priorities

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  1. HEFCE Priorities John Rushforth Director

  2. Overview • Context • Progression • Retention • Enhancement • Funding

  3. Key Challenges for the Sector • Quality student learning experience for a student population with increasingly diverse needs. • Ensure access and progression. • Support for innovation and development of curriculum and pedagogy. • Enhance the standing of teaching and reward excellence.

  4. Expansion of HE • The economic case is strong • Social benefits • Increasing demand from potential students • Participation in UK is relatively low

  5. Participation Rate Is Relatively Low

  6. Social Class Gap Is Wide and Persistent

  7. Strategic Objective ‘We want everyone to benefit from higher education who has the potential to do so’

  8. Target Groups Main (but not only) focus is 13-30; also: • Young people aged 13 to 19 from groups under-represented in HE • Under-represented groups in work, or work-based learning • People not in training, education or employment

  9. Student Progression • Work place learning • Flexible learning • Vocational qualifications and higher education • Life Long Learning Networks

  10. Lifelong learning networks • Regional or sub regional connections • Seamless progression routes • Guaranteed places • Credit transfer • Student support throughout career • Individual Learning Plans

  11. Retention • Something we are good at • Not just now but during time of change • A key element of WP strategy • ‘We want everyone to benefit from higher education who has the potential to do so’ • PSA target • Perception of HE

  12. Why do people drop out • Academic • Financial • Personal • Social

  13. Who is involved • Schools • Academics • Institutional managers • Support workers • Students

  14. Professional development • The white paper calls for all new academic staff to have a teaching qualification(2006) and for external examiners to have induction and CPD for their role. The opportunity is for HE staff to define the nature of this professional development and to engage with it The challenge is to gain agreement from multiple groups with different agendas

  15. National Teaching Fellowships From 20 to 50 per year • Acknowledgement of different types of nominee • Three institutional nominations Opportunity for NTFs to be a powerful advocates for Teaching Challenge to gain respect for the status of teaching as much as research

  16. Centres of Teaching Excellence • 70 Centres • 200,000 - 500,000 per year for 5 years • Up to £2 million capital funding. • Stage 1 • The case for excellence • Stage 2 • The business case for investment value • Announcement January 05 Opportunity of a reward for teaching Challenge to make this an investment effective

  17. The Higher Education Academy • Current status • Professor Paul Ramsden – CEO • LTSN, ILTHE and NCT incorporated • Board established • The Council to be developed • Launch October 2004 Opportunity for a real voice for academics in policy and for new funding for R&D Challenge – to create an effective new academy drawing together existing strands and increasing effectiveness of networks.

  18. Higher Education Academy:an opportunity • Ensuring continuity and development of • Professional accreditation • A voice for those developing teaching and learning • Informing leaders and managers about L&T issues • Strong subject networks • Dissemination, information, good practice, ideas and innovation • Coordination of enhancement projects/activities/agencies/networks • Greater weight in the sector for teaching enhancement • Policy lobby • Focus for L&T activities • Conduit for dissemination of innovation and good practice • Support for scholarship of learning and teaching

  19. Funding & Fees • WP - £273 million to institutions in 2003-04: • £49 .2 million outreach • £10.3 million for disabled students • £213.1 million for retention • Distributed on the basis of risk

  20. % not continuing versus A level entry points

  21. Funding & Fees • WP - £273 million to institutions in 2003-04: • £49 .2 million outreach • £10.3 million for disabled students • £213.1 million for retention • Distributed on the basis of risk • HR strategies • L&T strategies • Additional funds for Professional standards

  22. Funding Levels & Models • Uplift for inflation • Spending review • The end of postcodes • Ward participation • Educational achievement • New PIs ? • T Funding Review

  23. Fees as an opportunity • Substantial step change • Unencumbered • Retention as an investment • Virtuous spiral

  24. Future Issues • Impact uncertain of Variable Fees • Debt versus cash • Govt rather than student • Market Position • Office for fair access • Regional agenda • Shortage subjects

  25. Conclusions • Complex and evolving area • Interconnections means partnership • Long-term issue

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