HESA funding and monitoring data (FAMD) 2013-14: Web facility

HESA and HEFCE strongly encourage use of the web facility, which we regard as an essential element of all institutions’ data quality processes. It will help institutions to:

• return accurate data to HESA
• verify the accuracy of the derived fields that may inform and monitor funding and student number control (SNC) allocations
• respond to data verification queries (DVQs) raised by HEFCE staff
• reduce the likelihood of selection for the FAMD reconciliation exercise for 2013-14 (selected institutions are typically subject to considerable additional work and potential funding adjustments)
• identify discrepancies between forecasts for within-year HEFCE funding returns (such as the Higher Education Students Early Statistics survey (HESES)) and the outturn position for 2013-14
• identify errors in HEFCE funding returns
• verify that the 2013-14 HEFCE-fundable full-time equivalent student numbers used in the transparent approach to costing for teaching (TRAC(T)) are suitable to inform the periodic review of the relative costs of different subjects. More...