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Welcome slide. Introduction to HESES and teaching funding. Sarah Phillips. Park Crescent Conference Centre, London 20 September 2012. This session. We will talk through: Background to funding HEIs in 2012-13

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  1. Welcome slide

  2. Introduction to HESES and teaching funding Sarah Phillips Park Crescent Conference Centre, London 20 September 2012

  3. This session • We will talk through: • Background to funding HEIs in 2012-13 • How HESES12 will be used to monitor compliance with the 2012-13 funding agreement • How HESES12 will inform adjusted allocations for 2012-13 • How HESES12 will inform initial allocations for 2013-14 • How we gain assurance that the data are accurate

  4. Section 1: Introduction to teaching funding

  5. Funding method definitions • Year of instance is old-regime if student is: • In receipt of old-regime student support, provided they did not commence in 2011-12 and intermit within 2 weeks of starting • Or, • Not charged fees under the new fee regime (Sept 12) and is ‘continuing’, ‘transferring’ or on an ‘end-on course’ • All other years of instance are new-regime • This is not a part of the SNC definition

  6. What do we fund? • We fund the activity of institutions • HEFCE is empowered to fund teaching, research and related activities • This presentation concerns teaching funding • For HEIs, we fund: • Recognised HE courses • UG or PG degree, accredited HE diploma or certificate • Not NVQs • HE-level credit that can be counted towards a recognised HE course • Foundation years/ free standing level zero provision provided they are integrated i.e. student registered at start for HE qualification at same institution

  7. How do we fund recognised HE? • We calculate funding by formula, using HESES and HESA data • We count students as a proxy for teaching and related activity • We distribute our fixed budget fairly by: • Issuing common definitions for reporting aggregate student data • Verifying the data we receive • Reconciling data returns/ conducting audits • We provide funding in a block grant, paid in 10 installments • There are terms and conditions attached to our grant, set out in the funding agreement

  8. Which students should be reported? • In general the following students should be reported in HESES12: • Home and EU students, and island and overseas students • Students aiming for a recognised HE qualification/credit • Students active in AY 2012-13 / forecast to be active in AY 2013-14 • Outgoing but not incoming exchange students • Students taught directly or via outgoing franchise arrangement

  9. Which students shouldn’t be reported? • The following students should not be reported in HESES12: • Students that will not be reported in HESA • Students studying outside the UK for > 50% of the whole instance • Students returned on another institution’s HESES12/HEIFES12 • Students not actively pursuing studies • instances where all years of instance falling in the year are entirely writing up • instances where the only activity is assessment • Students on school-centred initial teaching training programmes • Students whose course aim is a research qualification awarded primarily on the basis of published works

  10. Which students do we count? • We count for funding purposes: • Home and EU students • Only those students expected to complete their study aims • We do not count for funding purposes: • Postgraduate research students • Students on ITT courses leading to QTS • All students holding QTS who are on an INSET course • Students on closed courses • Students aiming for an ELQ

  11. Which students do we count (2)? • We do not count for funding purposes (continued): • Old-regime students funded at the standard HEFCE rate from another EU public source • Students on pre-registration nursing or midwifery courses or courses leading to a recognised professional qualification in dietetics, speech and language therapy, chiropody/podiatry or prosthetics and orthotics • New-regime students on dental hygienist/dental therapist, occupational therapist, operating department practitioner, orthoptist, physiotherapist, radiographer or radiotherapist courses • New-regime students on an NHS funded course, where the tuition fee charged to the student is zero

  12. Funding streams • Teaching funding is broken into funding streams • Grant tables show breakdown of teaching funds: • Funding for old-regime students • HEFCE-fundable and co-funded • Recognises higher rate of HEFCE grant under old-regime • Funding for new-regime students • In high-cost subjects only and reflecting the higher fees chargeable in the new-regime • Targeted allocations • Other recurrent teaching grants

  13. Funding targets • Institutions are subject to intake targets/requirements • Grant tables show targets that apply: • Student number control (SNC) – all institutions • Medical and dental intake targets – some institutions • Compliance with the targets are monitored via: • HESES for the SNC • The Medical and Dental Survey (MDS) for the medical and dental intake targets

  14. Section 2: HESES12 and the 2012-13 SNC

  15. 2012-13 SNC definition • The control limits • ‘HEFCE-fundable or employer co-funded FT UG students starting study in academic year 2012-13’ • Provided that the students have not been HEFCE-fundable or employer co-funded FT UG students in either of the preceding 2 academic years as students of the same institution • Provided that the students have not withdrawn within 2 weeks of starting • And • ‘HEFCE-fundable FT PGCE students starting study in academic year 2012-13’ • Provided that the students have not withdrawn within 2 weeks of starting

  16. Who counts towards the SNC? • The SNC largely applies to: • New-regime students although exceptionally, old-regime students can count • Entrants, although others can count e.g. mode-switchers • The SNC does not apply to students: • With qualifications equivalent to AAB+ at A-level on entry (except for exempt institutions, where it does apply) • Aiming for a first registrable medical/dental qualification • Starting having studied at the institution in the previous 2 years • Who are active for less than 2 weeks • Who are non-fundable, e.g. are aiming for an ELQ or are on a closed course

  17. 2012-13 SNC monitoring • Compliance will be monitored using HESES12 Table 6: • All students in relevant rows of this table will count towards SNC limit • Consequences if institutions exceed their limit • Indicative adjustment shown in separate tab of HESES12: • This indicative adjustment is for information • There may be changes during the data verification process • We will write to institutions in December with a provisional grant adjustment summary incorporating SNC and medical and dental intake target adjustments • Institutions can appeal any provisional adjustment • Adjustments will be finalised after the data have been signed off and following appeals

  18. 2012-13 SNC monitoring (2)

  19. 2012-13 SNC monitoring (3) • Impact in 2012-13 • If institutions exceed their 2012-13 SNC limit: • They will be liable for a reduction in HEFCE grant pro rata to level of over-recruitment • Level of grant reduction per student in excess of the limit will be notified to us by BIS (may exceed fee income) • They will be liable for a reduction in HEFCE grant in relation to any over-recruitment in 2010-11 or 2011-12 not offset in 2012-13 • We will not count students recruited in excess of the SNC towards our funding for high-cost subjects

  20. 2012-13 SNC monitoring (4) • Offsetting in 2012-13

  21. 2012-13 SNC monitoring (5) • Offsetting in 2012-13 Examples • 1 Institution recruits 4100 students • Grant adjustment relating to 100 students above 2012-13 SNC • Further grant adjustment relating to 90 students not offset from 2011-12 • Further grant adjustment relating to 40 students not offset from 2010-11 • 2 Institution recruits 3900 students • No grant adjustment relating to 2012-13 SNC • No further grant adjustment relating to over-recruitment in 2011-12 • Further grant adjustment relating to 30 students not offset from 2010-11

  22. 2012-13 SNC monitoring (6) • Impact in 2013-14 and future years • If institutions exceed their 2012-13 SNC limit: • Offset for over-recruitment may be required in 2013-14 and future years • May reduce high-cost funding in 2013-14 and future years (if over-recruitment not offset) • students over limit (attributed to B and C1) x continuation rate x rate of funding • Note that further changes to definition expected for 2013-14 • If institutions recruit significantly below their limit: • We may reduce limits • We may take account of this in margin allocations

  23. 2012-13 SNC monitoring (7) • Offsetting in 2013-14 – illustrative from Example 1

  24. 2012-13 SNC monitoring (8) • Offsetting in 2013-14 Examples • 1 Institution recruits 4500 students • No grant adjustment relating to 2013-14 SNC • Further grant adjustment relating to 90 students not offset from 2012-13 • Further grant adjustment relating to 72 students not offset from 2011-12 • 2 Institution recruits 4000 students • No grant adjustment relating to 2013-14 SNC • No further grant adjustment relating to over-recruitment in 2012-13 • No further grant adjustment relating to 72 students not offset from 2011-12

  25. 2012-13 SNC process key dates • 11 December HESES submission deadline • 17 December (w/c) Provisional grant adjustment letters issued and appeals invited • 14 January HESES sign-off and appeal submission deadline • 29 January HEFCE Executive considers appeals • 11 February (w/c) Final grant adjustment letters issued and institutions notified of appeal outcomes • 18 March (w/c) Grant announcement incorporating appeal outcomes • April – July Any grant adjustments implemented through monthly payment profile

  26. Section 3: Adjusted 2012-13 funding

  27. 2012-13 funding method • 3-stage method – Stage 1, March 2012 • Initial high-cost allocation announced: • volume measure based on HESES11 data (Table 7) • rates of funding calculated from total budget • Initial phase-out allocations (mainstream and co-funded) announced: • volume measures based on HESES11 data (Table 7) • rates of funding based on HESES11 data (Tables 1-3) • scaling factor ensures affordability • Targeted allocations announced: • based on HESES11 data (Tables 1-3) except London interim and PGT allocations (Table 7)

  28. 2012-13 funding method (2) • 3-stage method – Stage 2, March 2013 • Adjusted high-cost allocation announced: • volume measure based on HESES12 data (Tables 1 and 3) • scaling factor recalculated from total budget • Adjusted phase-out allocations (mainstream and co-funded) announced: • volume measures based on HESES12 data (Tables 1-3) • rates of funding based on HESA 2011-12 data • scaling factor ensures affordability • Targeted allocations unchanged (except interim London and PGT allocations recalculated using HESES12 data)

  29. 2012-13 funding method (3) • 3-stage method – Stage 3, March 2014 • Final high-cost allocation announced: • volume measure based on HESA 2012-13 data • scaling factor recalculated from total budget • Final phase-out allocations (mainstream and co-funded) announced: • volume measures based on HESA 2012-13 data • rates of funding unchanged • scaling factor ensures affordability • Targeted allocations unchanged (except interim London and PGT allocations recalculated using HESA 2012-13 data)

  30. How will HESES12 data be used? • HESES12 to inform adjusted 2012-13 allocations • Recalculated volume for adjusted high-cost funding • Tables 1 and 3, Column 4(b) (for PT Column 4a(b)) - new-regime • Recalculated volume for adjusted phase-out funding (mainstream) • Tables 1-3, Column 4(a) (for PT Column 4a(a)) - old-regime (SWOUT: volume/2) • Recalculated volume for adjusted phase-out funding (co-funded) • Tables 1-3, Column 5 (for PT Column 5a) - old-regime (SWOUT: volume/2) • Recalculated volume for interim PGT allocation • Tables 1-3, Column 4(b) (for PT Column 4a(b)) - new-regime

  31. Predicting 2012-13 allocations • Institutions can predict their adjusted 2012-13 allocations • Institutions can see indicative adjusted funding allocations at the back of the HESES12 workbook (includes 2011-12 HESA data) • HEFCE Board meets in January (after receipt of our grant letter from BIS) • After this we will issue C/L describing likely changes to scaling factors / changes to our budget etc. • Institutions will be able to predict adjusted allocations more accurately following issue of January C/L • Allocations may change compared to initial allocations due to: • Changes to numbers recruited compared to numbers forecast • Changes to scaling factors across sector

  32. Section 4: Initial 2013-14 funding

  33. 2013-14 funding method • Reference HEFCE publication 2012/19 • ‘Student number controls and teaching funding in 2013-14 and beyond: Summary of responses to consultation and decisions made’ • 3-stage method applies: Initial allocations - March 2013, Adjusted allocations - March 2014, Final allocations - March 2015 • Introduction of new price group C1 – will attract high-cost funding • Changes to targeted allocations e.g. SO allocation

  34. How will HESES12 data be used? • HESES12 to inform initial 2013-14 allocations • Volume for initial high-cost funding • Table 7, Columns 1(iii) and 3a(iii) ‘Home and EU, HEFCE-fundable, new-regime’ (FT and PT) • Volume for initial phase-out funding (mainstream) • Table 7, Columns 1(i), 2(i) and 3a(i) ‘Home and EU, HEFCE-fundable, old-regime’ (FT, SWOUT and PT, SWOUT/2) • Volume for initial phase-out funding (co-funded) • Table 7, Columns 1(ii), 2(ii) and 3(ii) ‘Home and EU, employer-co-funded, old-regime’ (FT, SWOUT and PT, SWOUT/2) • Volumes for targeted allocations • Tables 1 – 3 as appropriate

  35. Section 5: Assurance processes

  36. HESES12 data assurance • There are 3 main data assurance processes • Data verification • Detailed verification of the workbook after submission • Focus on overall accuracy – funding and SNC adjustments • Data audit • Selective audits based on risk • Focus on overall data quality and processes • HESES12 and HESA 2012-13 data reconciliation • All HEIs tested against SNC selection criteria (last year £100,000) • Focus on accurate data reporting for SNC monitoring

  37. Thank you for listening s.phillips@hefce.ac.uk

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