Funding of the Veterinary Clinical Skills Centre by the HEFCE Catalyst Fund has made a major contribution to many aspects of the work of the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Surrey. More...

In 2015, Bristol was the UK’s first European Green Capital. During the year, HEFCE’s Catalyst Fund backed an initiative between the University of Bristol and the University of the West of England Bristol to promote student involvement in green activities. More...

The UK’s first Faculty on the Factory Floor project – with input from the Catalyst Fund – is changing the way we think about developing our future engineers. More...

Backing from HEFCE and an early set of industrial partners allowed the University of Lincoln the space and resources to deliver its vision for the future. More...

The aim of the Operations Excellence (Op-Ex) Institute was to enhance the role of Cranfield University as an economic anchor within the region and nationally. It achieves this by enhancing learning and teaching through novel approaches, engaging students with the design and delivery of learning, and expanding knowledge exchange activities through clustering and collaboration with small manufacturing companies. More...

Over the past year Deloitte has been researching the impact of our Catalyst Fund investments and has now reported on its findings.
The Catalyst Fund is a HEFCE programme which supports innovative strategic projects across a range of higher education activity, co-investing with universities and colleges. More...

Institutions offering employability-related activities as part of their higher education provision need ways of evaluating their impact after graduation.
HEFCE’s Learning Gain programme supports collaborative institutional projects to pilot and evaluate a range of approaches for capturing educational outcomes and analysing how students benefit from higher education. More...

As HEFCE seeks student representatives to help with the next round of assessments, some of last year’s panellists and assessors reflect on their experiences in this blog series. More...

As HEFCE seeks student representatives to help with the next round of assessments, some of last year’s panellists and assessors reflect on their experiences in this blog series. More...

An alternative provider (AP) is defined as any provider of higher education (HE) courses in the UK which:

• does not directly receive annual funding from HEFCE or its equivalent bodies in the devolved administrations
• does not receive direct annual public funding
• is not a further education college.

The AP sector is an incredibly diverse part of HE. Beyond the criteria above, APs can have very little else in common. More...