This guide is intended for those working in higher education, and others who wish to understand our funding methods. It explains:
The information applies to universities and colleges for academic years 2013-14 and 2014-15.
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Download the Outcomes of access agreement, WPSS and NSP monitoring 2012-13 as PDF (1,559 KB)This letter requests that all higher education institutions (HEIs) complete the Procurement Efficiency Measurement Model (EMM) survey for 2012-13 data, by 28 August 2014. Most HEIs have responded to the survey in previous years, and extending the coverage will result in stronger evidence to Government on the sector’s efficiency. More...
A report published today by HEFCE and OFFA [Note 1] shows that in 2012-13 universities and colleges in England significantly increased their investment in measures to widen access and improve success among students from low income and other under-represented groups. The sector invested a total of £743 million in widening participation activity in 2012-13, an increase of £61 million from 2011-12. More...
The Office for Fair Access (OFFA) published a report on 2015-16 access agreements today.
HEFCE has published a large amount of interactive data on the current and future supply of graduates and postgraduates in all subjects. For individual subject areas the data show:
1. This circular letter notifies alternative providers of higher education of changes that the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has asked us to make to the Higher Education in Alternative Providers Early Statistics (HEAPES) survey for the 2014-15 academic year. We do not require a reply to this letter. This letter is not intended to provide an exhaustive list of all changes, but gives advance notification on key points. More...
By Courtney Sloane. Despite the Coalition’s promises to the contrary prior to the 2013 Federal Election, the 2014-15 Federal Budget presented some of the most dramatic changes to higher education in over a generation. It also laid a blue print for a fundamentally different approach to social investment and welfare. Public spending in many traditional areas has been slashed and community organisations, charities, families and individuals are scrambling to fill the void. While these changes will affect most people in some way or other, casual workers at Australian universities will face particularly challenging circumstances. More...
By Paul Clifton. Crossbench senators with an ear to popular opinion could become even less co-operative when university cuts come before them, with new polling showing the Coalition’s changes are poison in voter-land. Extensive automated phone polling across 23 federal electorates taking in all states has found cuts in federal funding and changes to allow increased fees, higher loan charges, and access to limited federal funding by non-university course providers, have not gone over well with households. Sixty-nine per cent of those polled said they opposed “significant increases in fees” and 65 per cent said they opposed a 20 per cent funding cut. More...
By Paul Clifton. I was very fortunate to be invited to attend and to present my research on academic casualisation in Australia at the 41st Annual Conference on Collective Bargaining in Higher Education, hosted by the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions (NCSCBHEP) at City University New York in April. The NCSCBHEP is a joint labour and management centre focussed on the study and promotion of collective bargaining as a means for advancing the working conditions of staff in higher education in the US. More...
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