Professor David Eastwood

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Professor David Eastwood
Chief Executive Higher Education Funding Council
for England
AUA Planning Forum 1 November 2007
A forward look
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An Indian summer or the world we were in
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An Indian summer or the world we were in

• Sustained growth
• Sustained investment
• Significant change (fees, realignment)
• Significant success

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DfES funding
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DfES funding and students
Student FTE
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HE student numbers
Source DfES Statistical First Release, 27 March
2007
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UCAS applicants 2002 - 2007
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Sustaining global competitiveness of English
Higher Education

• The UK has only 1 of the worlds population, but
  carries out 5 of world research, and produces
  12 of all cited papers
• UK ranks second in the world to the USA on
  research
• UK research base rankings of citation and high
  impact shares
• Bioscience, environmental science, social
  science, business, clinical, pre-clinical,
  mathematics second in the world
• Physical sciences third in the world
• Engineering fourth in the world

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Participation rates
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OECD comparisons
Source OECD (2007)
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Selected third stream indicators
HEFCE Sector. Financial data in real terms 2005-06
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Autumn mists
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Autumn mists

• Comprehensive Spending Review 2007
• Spending Review 2009
• Fees review
• RAE 2008

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CSR 07
The picture so far

• Increase in student numbers of 50,000 to 1.2
  million by 2010-11
• Commitment to maintaining per student funding
  levels in real terms 2 annual average real
  terms increase for higher education and adult
  skills from 14.2 billion in 2007-08 to 16.4
  billion by 2010-11
• HEIF funding will increase to 150 million a year
  by 2010-11
• Increase in recurrent and capital research
  funding from 1,655 million in 2007-08 to 1,926
  million by 2010-11

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Fees review 2009
In 2004 the Secretary of State for Education and
Skills announced

• an independent review, working with the Office
  For Fair Access, to report to the House, on all
  aspects of the new arrangements based on the
  first three years operation of the policy.
• This would include
• The impact of the new arrangements on higher
  education institutions
• The impact of the new arrangements on students
  and prospective students
• Future policy

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Research concentration

• HEFCE QR
• Four HEIs receive 29 of HEFCE research funds
• Ten HEIs receive 50 of HEFCE research funds
• 23 HEIs receive 75 of HEFCE research funds

• Research Council funding
• Three HEIs receive 25 of Research Council
  funding
• Eight HEIs receive 50 of Research Council
  funding
• 18 HEIs receive 75 of Research Council funding

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Mellow fruitfulness
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Mellow fruitfulness

• Expansion and 50
• Skills and Leitch
• Employer engagement
• Research Excellence Framework
• Strategic possibilities

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HE participation
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The Leitch challenge for HE
World class high skills, exceeding 40 of the
adult population qualified to Level 4 and above.
Around 12 million people in work, most of whom
will not progress to HE unless we innovate
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Research evaluation and funding after RAE 2008
Research Excellence Framework the timeline
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Strategic Development Fund

• SDF capital funding committed to date
  183,301,501
• SDF revenue funding committed to date
  321,048,453
• ASNs committed to date 32,976 FTE

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Winter frosts
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Winter frosts

• Equivalent and Lower Qualifications (ELQs)
• International volatility
• Pay and pensions

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Spring flowers
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Spring flowers

• Meeting the skills challenge
• Sustaining research excellence
• Enhancing the student experience
• Valuing teaching
• Two legs good, three legs better

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Spring flowers

• Wider still and wider
• Rethinking infrastructures
• Confidence in diversity
• Commitment to quality

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Widening Participation spend

• In 2007-08
• HEFCE WP allocation 356m
• HEFCE PT premium c53m
• Aimhigher 80m

OFFA resource estimate over 300m in bursaries
and scholarships once fees regime is in steady
state
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RAE improved ratings for total submitted staff
over time
Number of submitted staff
RAE exercise
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HEFCE third stream funding
HEIF 4 funding will rise to 150m per year by
2010-11
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Promoting continuous improvement in learning and
teaching

• Currently around 525 million invested across the
  TQEF supporting strategic change
• LT strategies
• 74 CETLs
• HE Academy (including 24 subject centres)
• National Teaching Fellowship Scheme
• Quality assurance
• National Student Survey