Council and the General Board have considered Mr Dawe's letter as part of their discussions of the University's budget for 1999–2000, and have agreed that the letter should be published in order to provide background information for members of the University.
1. The Secretary of State today announced more details of the outcome of the Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) for higher education, including detailed figures for the next two years. I am now writing with guidance on the distribution of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) grant in the light of the Secretary of State's priorities. All the funding figures will be subject to Parliamentary approval in the usual way.
2. As the Secretary of State said in his letter of 15 July, he has secured a very good settlement for higher education. In return for the substantial public investment in higher education, the Secretary of State expects universities and colleges to deliver improved quality and standards and to take effective measures to widen access to under-represented social groups.
3. Compared with 1998–9 an extra £280 million will be available for universities, colleges and students in 1999–2000 and an extra £496 million in 2000–1. Detailed figures are set out in the Annexe to this letter. The figures for 2000–1 are provisional, based on the CSR outcome. Final figures will be confirmed in the course of 1999, taking into account how the Department's programmes are developing.
4. This guidance covers capital grant, including for research, for 2001–2 as well as for 1999–2000 and 2000–1. Other details for 2001–2 will be announced later. Meanwhile, the Council should plan on the basis that funds will be available in 2001–2 to sustain quality and standards, and to provide for continuing growth in student numbers, and will be at least as much in real terms as the expenditure for 2000–1 on the basis of current inflation assumptions.
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5. The Government announced the outcome of its Comprehensive Spending Review and its plans for reviewing and controlling public expenditure in July. The Department's overall budget was fixed for the next three years. The details contained in this letter go a long way towards meeting the recommendation of the Dearing Report that the public funding for higher education should be determined on a rolling three-year basis.
6. The Department will be expected to contain unforeseen growth in spending requirements, including the costs of student support, within the,Departmental Expenditure Limit (DEL). It will therefore be monitoring closely student numbers and student support costs.
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7. The CSR settlement recognises the key role which higher education will be expected to play in lifelong learning. This role was set out in the Lifelong Learning Green Paper and has been supported in the responses to the consultation on the Green Paper. The CSR outcome and this grant letter represent the Government's response to the consultation on HE issues in the Green Paper.
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8. The Secretary of State welcomes the action already taken by the Council to evaluate its funding initiatives and expects its evaluation programme to be designed so as to complement the Department's. It should include, in particular, the extra spend on widening access and on capital/IT and research infrastructure and should also cover the extent to which universities and colleges are interacting with business and responding to business needs. The Secretary of State expects the Council to evaluate progress with rigour and report to Ministers on areas for improvement. In doing so, the Council should also have regard to the need to retain diversity as reflected in the mission statements of universities and colleges.
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9. The settlement will enable universities and colleges to maintain and enhance quality and standards. The Funding Council should continue to look at ways of improving value for money.
10. Students who commit themselves to higher education should be well taught and helped to succeed and progress into jobs. The Secretary of State expects institutions to give a high priority to enhancing the quality of teaching and learning for all students and to ensuring rigour and transparency in the standards of awards, including clear specification of programme content and outcomes, which make it easier for employers to judge what skills a graduate will bring to the workplace.
11. The Secretary of State notes that the Council retains a statutory responsibility under the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 to secure that provision is made for assessing the quality of education for which the Council provides support, and that the Council has contracted with the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) to carry out quality assessments for this purpose.
12. The Secretary of State welcomes the progress being made by the Council, the QAA and the higher education sector towards devising a more flexible and effective system of quality assurance. The QAA's recent statement on "Quality Assurance: A New Approach" sets out principles for further development. The new approach aims to provide public assurance that each institution maintains its degree standards; independent verification that programmes of study are delivering their intended outcomes; and information on the quality of learning opportunities. The Secretary of State encourages the Council, working in co-operation with the QAA and other bodies, to continue to secure improvements in methods of quality assurance. The Council should review the QAA findings in its annual report and should report regularly to Ministers on changes to be made as a result.
13. The Secretary of State expects the Council to promote and enhance high quality teaching and learning and welcomes the Council's proposals to set aside some £30m for promoting and rewarding high quality in teaching. He also welcomes the Council's constructive involvement in the preparation for an Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education and its decision to provide start-up funding for the Institute.
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14. The plans for growth in student numbers reflect the Government's commitment to the principle that anyone who has the capability for higher education should have the opportunity to benefit from it. They support the Government's national target for 28 per cent of the workforce to have a level 4 qualification (a degree or a higher level vocational qualification) by the year 2002.
15. Taken together, the CSR settlements for higher and further education will deliver an additional 800,000 students in further and higher education in 2001–02 in England compared to 1997–8, of which some 1 00,000 will be in higher education split between part-time and fulltime. Within the total, there will be scope for participation by young people to reach 35 per cent by 2002, although the actual age participation index will depend on the number of continuing students and the breakdown of the new entrants between young and mature students.
16. The CSR settlement will allow for 36,000 extra students in higher education in 1999–2000 and 61,000 extra in 2000–1, compared with planned numbers in 1998–9. As compared with 1998–9, the plans allow for:
(a) an extra 20,000 part-time students in 1999–2000 rising to 37,000 in 2000–1;
(b) a total extra 16,000 full-time students in 1999–2000 and a total extra 24,000 fulltime students in 2000–1. Of these, 8,000 in 1999–2000 and 15,000 in 2000–1 will be on sub-degree courses, mainly in further education colleges. The focus on sub-degree courses, mainly in further education colleges, is designed to meet the national need - identified in the Dearing Report and recognised in the Government's Response - for more people with advanced technical training;
(c) within the extra 20,000 part-time students in 1999–2000 an extra 8,000 on subdegree courses and within the extra 37,000 part-time students in 2000–1 an extra 20,000 on sub-degree courses, mainly in further education colleges;
(d) an extra 2,000 full-time and 4,000 part-time postgraduates in 1999–2000, an extra 3,000 full-time and 8,000 part-time postgraduates in 2000–1.
Financial year estimates of total full-time equivalent student numbers for the next two years 1999–2000 and 2000–1 are shown in the Annexe to this letter. Details of the planned student numbers in 2001–2 will be announced later. The figures allow for a phased increase in medical undergraduate intakes reflecting the Government's commitment to an increased UK intake of 1,000 by 2005 (400 by 2001).
17. The Council should continue to exercise tight controls to ensure that the number of fulltime and sandwich undergraduate students is not exceeded and planned participation rates are met. Separate controls should be applied to the number of full- time students on first degree and sub-degree courses respectively. The need for controls is even more important now that student support costs have to be contained within the Department's Expenditure Limit.
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18. In order to meet the Government's commitment to widening access, the Secretary of State expects much of the expansion of student numbers to be through part- time and subdegree courses, as indicated above. He would like the majority of the expansion in sub-degree places to be delivered through further education colleges. The Council should put effective mechanisms in place to monitor and ensure that these objectives are met in practice by institutions.
19. The Secretary of State expects the Council to allocate funds so as to promote wider access. The settlement will enable the Council to deliver its proposals for setting aside some £30m to support this aim through mainstream and special funding. He welcomes the Council's intention to introduce a premium within the funding formula to recognise success in the recruitment of students from disadvantaged backgrounds or facing particular challenges. He would expect child-care and assistance to students with caring responsibilities to be among the measures eligible for support from these funds. He also welcomes the further development funds to be provided by the Council to link higher education institutions with schools and colleges to encourage retention and progression through higher education, to target particular disadvantaged groups and to support the promotion and dissemination of good practice.
20. The Secretary of State expects the Council, in allocating the additional places being made available, to give priority to institutions which provide evidence of activity to widen access, and which have mechanisms for monitoring the implementation and effects of those strategies.
21. The Council should consider the implications of its funding arrangements for equal opportunities. The Secretary of State expects the Council to continue to have regard to the needs of students with disabilities. He asks the Council to take into account, when allocating funds to institutions, the need to meet the additional costs of providing learning support for students with learning difficulties and disabilities. He further asks the Council to monitor the provision made by institutions for disabled students.
22. In support of the Government's commitment to widening access, the Secretary of State has announced a number of improvements to student support arrangements, in particular: part-time fee remission for students becoming unemployed after starting their course; part-time fee remission for students on benefit; and support for students entering higher education from care and for mature students through Access Funds.
23. Provision for Access Funds and for fee remission for part-timers is set out in the Table below. Access Funds guidance will be issued as soon as possible next year and it is important that the Funding Council allocates these funds quickly. Guidance on fee remission for students who are on benefits or low income will be issued separately.
| £ million | |||
| Financial year | 1998-9 | 1999-2000 | 2000-1 |
| Access Funds | 371 | 512 | 45 |
| Fee remission for part-time students who become unemployed after joining their course or who are on benefits or low income | 2 | 12 | 13 |
1 Since the figure of £ for 1998-9 was
announced
in the 1997 grant
letter, there has been a transfer of £1m from the HEFCE to
the
FEFC Access Fund
in respect of part-time students on HE courses in FE colleges.
2 The balance of funds between FY 1998-9 and 1999-2000 is distorted because the HEFCE Access Fund for the AY 1998-9 was doubled but only the first two terms fall into FY 1998-9.
24. Other measures to support access as a result of the Comprehensive Spending Review will be announced in due course.
25. The Secretary of State regards universities' and colleges' outreach programmes for adults as playing a very important part in lifelong learning and looks to institutions to attach priority to the continuation and, where necessary, the refocusing of their outreach programmes. These should cover: regeneration of the economy of the specific or local communities in which the university has a legitimate interest; partnership work with adult education and other providers offering access to those groups who have traditionally been disadvantaged in relation to education and lifelong learning; and a contribution in terms of the role education can play in making expertise and facilities available to overcoming exclusion and social isolation. The Secretary of State believes that there is advantage in the maintenance and development within institutions of expertise in reaching out to non-participating groups, and in championing the case of more flexible delivery, for example through centres of expertise. He will expect that some of the development money from the widening participation fund will be used for this purpose, and that the Council will facilitate the achievement of the objectives of outreach programmes more generally.
26. The Secretary of State welcomes the HEFCE's indication of its willingness to work with the University for Industry (UfI). He looks forward to continuing dialogue between the Council and the developing UfI organisation and requests the Council to hold back some part-time places from the normal allocation process to enable institutions that are working with the UfI in the initial stage to develop joint provision of learning opportunities.
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27. The Government is determined to increase the employability of higher education students. As the Chancellor of the Exchequer said in his pre-Budget report, it is particularly important, given the substantial public investment involved, that students in higher education are employable upon graduation. Better information is crucial to the achievement of this aim. The Chancellor made it clear in his pre-Budget report that performance indicators relating to employment outcomes would take effect in 2000; and the Secretary of State expects the Council to take urgent action to ensure that this happens (see also para. 47 below).
28. The Secretary of State recognises the contribution which universities and colleges make to the economy and invites the Council to develop measures to enhance that contribution in its funding allocations by:-
(a) taking into account critical skill shortages and gaps, focusing especially on IT skills given the report of the National Skills Task Force `Towards a National Skills Agenda'. A particular need here is to focus on the delivery of education and training in forms suitable for the life styles and needs of adults;
(b) promoting other measures to encourage institutions to meet the needs of industry and commerce, such as: the encouragement of work experience opportunities for all students and helping them to learn from the experience; the teaching of key skills; a particular focus on the skills needed for employment for students in the arts and humanities; and the development of links with small and medium sized enterprises;
(c) promoting measures to encourage the transfer and application of knowledge.
29. The Secretary of State welcomes the Council's proposal to work with this Department and DTI in creating a new Higher Education Reach Out Fund to enhance higher education/business interaction through, for example, helping to set up centres of expertise within institutions. Particular objectives should be the encouragement of work experience; the transfer of knowledge, including in particular the transfer into SMES; and the promotion of higher education/business interaction and employability through other appropriate measures. The Secretary of State expects the Council to allocate £10m in 1999–2000, £15m in 2000–1 and £20m in 2001–2 for this purpose. In addition to grant from this Department, DTI will also make available resources over the three years, and we will write to the Council shortly to confirm totals.
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30. The Secretary of State looks to the Council to encourage higher education institutions to work closely not just with employers but with other partners, including further education colleges and schools, TECs and the new Regional Development Agencies. He attaches considerable importance to the development of successful partnerships.
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31. The settlement will enable higher education institutions to invest in the capital and IT infrastructure necessary to enhance teaching and support the knowledge- driven economy. The grant will include a separate capital line, of which £35m/£50m/£100m in 1999–2000/200001/2001–2 will be available for capital and IT infrastructure and £50m/£100m/£150m for research infrastructure (see below).
32. The first call on the amount for capital and IT infrastructure will be to meet any necessary capital implications of the expansion of intakes to medical schools. The Council should use the balance to fund the expansion and enhancement of the electronic infrastructure and other aspects of the learning resource infrastructure available to universities and colleges to support teaching and learning. Investment in teaching infrastructure should include, for example, improvements in laboratories used mainly for teaching purposes.
33. The settlement is intended to support developments in the infrastructure for communications and information technology (C and IT) of the following kind:
(a) improvements in network infrastructure, including improved links between HE and FE institutions, which will help to support the dissemination of high quality teaching materials;
(b) improvements in access to appropriate C and IT, particularly for students without access to a personal computer;
(c) the enhancement of IT subject centres; and
(d) investment in SuperJANET to enable the sector to remain as a world leader.
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34. The Council should continue to promote PFI/PPP as procurement options where they seem likely to offer value for money and to earmark £2 million a year of recurrent funding to support the costs of PFI/PPP, including the VAT-related grant.
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35. The settlement will provide substantial new funding for research of £300m over the three-year period (£50m/£100m/£150m in 1999–2000/2000–1/2001–2 respectively). This is on top of the additional provision being made available for the science and engineering base by OST and the Wellcome Trust (some El billion over the three years excluding the Wellcome Trust's contribution to a replacement high intensity X-ray machine). This major boost for research will more than meet the Dearing Committee's recommendation for extra research funding.
36. The £300 million extra capital grant for research is earmarked for projects to improve research infrastructure and equipment in universities. The Secretary of State welcomes the Council's intention to create a £100m fund to run alongside the Joint Infrastructure Fund being set up by OST and the Wellcome Trust.
37. The Secretary of State expects the Council to continue to play its part in promoting Foresight, through its funding allocations and other means. He also welcomes the Council's decision to mount its Joint Research Equipment Initiative annually in future.
38. As in previous years, the Secretary of State will wish to consider the Council's proposals on the split between funding for teaching and research for each year.
39. The Secretary of State expects that, building upon the existing collaboration with the CVCP, SCOP and other funding councils on the Joint Costing and Pricing Steering Group, the Council will take actively forward the review of the transparency and accountability of the funding arrangements for research, which is being led by the Director General of the Research Councils.
40. The Secretary of State also expects the Council to continue to allocate research funding selectively and to concentrate it on departments which are likely to produce over the long term highest quality in terms of research output.
41. The Secretary of State would like the Council, in collaboration with the other higher education funding bodies, to find ways of opening up the Research Assessment Exercise to a greater number of influences than academic peer review and involving in the assessment process informed independent members with research expertise from outside UK universities and colleges. He hopes that the Council will seek to ensure that assessment panels give due weight to institutions' co-use of research knowledge with partners. The Secretary of State also looks forward to hearing the outcome of the funding bodies' consideration of how to create disincentives to institutions' "poaching" staff with good records of research publications in the run-up to the next RAE and the outcome of the HEFCE/CVCP working group's consideration of whether a minimum percentage of staff should be submitted in order for a department or unit to be eligible for a 5 or 5* rating. The Secretary of State would want to consider these issues urgently, together with concerns raised about the closure and amalgamation of departments in relation to the RAE.
42. The Secretary of State expects the Council to encourage the promotion of knowledge transfer and the development of closer links between universities and users of research in order to maximise the commercial exploitation of university research. The Government has already set up the University Challenge Fund with the Wellcome Trust and the Gatsby Charitable Foundation. Including contributions from universities, £50 million will be available in seed funding on a UK wide basis to help institutions to make the most of research findings by supporting the early stages, of commercial exploitation.
43. The Chancellor of the Exchequer also announced in his pre-Budget report a £25 million Enterprise Challenge Scheme to take forward on a UK wide basis the Government's agenda for promoting the effective commercialisation of science research. Six to eight new institutes of enterprise in selected universities will be endowed through a challenge competition and attract additional private sector funding. Universities will be invited to compete for funds to set up these new institutes to work closely alongside their research departments. The institutes will have two mutually reinforcing roles: as teaching bodies, building business and entrepreneurship skills into the curriculum; and as centres of excellence for knowledge transfer and exploitation.
44. The Secretary of State welcomes the establishment by the Council and the British Academy jointly of an Arts and Humanities Research Board, in response to Dearing's recommendation 29. This brings together the creative and performing arts and the humanities under one research umbrella, to their mutual advantage. The total funding of over £44m for the AHRB in 1999-2000 approaches the scale of funding which the Dearing Report recommended for selective distribution. The Secretary of State sees this as a positive development which offers many of the advantages of a Research Council without the need for primary legislation or entirely new accommodation.
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45. The Secretary of State reminds the Council of the importance he attaches to the effective governance and management of universities and colleges. He stresses the need for institutions to have in place proper arrangements to ensure adequate accountability and transparency for public money made available for higher education and he asks the Council to continue to review the need for guidance to the sector on matters of financial management and value for money.
46. The Secretary of State is aware of concerns raised during the NAO's recent study of Southampton Institute about the management of overseas course provision and asks the Council to follow up as quickly as possible any relevant recommendations which may result from the forthcoming NAO report. He expects the Council to consider the scope for issuing strengthened guidance to the sector on the management of overseas activities.
47. The Secretary of State wishes to see rapid progress made by the Performance Indicators Steering Group in developing indicators at a sectoral and institutional level, including indicators on employment outcomes which will better inform the choice of prospective students. He looks forward to receiving the Steering Group's report early in the new year on which performance indicators will be produced and when publication will take place. As noted above, performance indicators relating to employment outcomes should take effect in 2000.
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48. The Secretary of State expects the Council to have regard to the need to continue to encourage universities and colleges to engage in sustainable development. The Council should consider whether there is advice drawn from the best practice elsewhere which can be disseminated to the sector.
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49. The Secretary of State notes the work that the Council has already undertaken to assess the readiness of the sector and its own system for the year 2000 date change. He understands that all universities and colleges have submitted declarations or given assurances about their year 2000 compliance. In the event that the Council considers that the state of readiness of any institution is inadequate to deal with the compliance issues, including through the preparation of contingency plans, the Secretary of State will expect the Council to take action to require an institution to achieve an acceptable state of readiness. This may include the selective application of conditions of grant by the Council to institutions that are not adequately prepared.
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50. The CSR settlement takes account of student contributions, subject to income assessment, to tuition fees. The outcome of the settlement means that for 1999–2000 and 2000–1 the sector will retain all the income from student contributions to fees and receive extra public funding on top. The figures are set out in the Annexe.
51. As for 1998–9, the figures set out in the Annexe provide sufficient funds to enable the Funding Council to provide compensation for the average lower tuition fee (compared with the differentiated fees regime of 1997–8 and previous years) in respect of the planned numbers. We look to the Funding Council to allocate funds between institutions so as to reflect the effect of the differentiated fee regime.
52. The Secretary of State has made it clear that he does not expect institutions to charge "top up" fees. Under the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998 the Secretary of State has the power to impose a condition on the Council's grant for 1999–2000, requiring it in turn to place a condition on the funding it allocates for 1999–2000 to institutions providing higher education that they should not charge "top up" fees. The Secretary of State is considering whether to attach a condition of grant for 1999–2000.
53. From 1999–2000 the Department plans to cease to require local education authorities to pay examination/validation fees charged by external bodies on behalf of full-time undergraduate students eligible for help with fees and maintenance via the student support arrangements. The Council's grant will be adjusted to enable it to pay tuition fee compensation to universities and colleges. We expect the Council to adjust the block grants it makes to institutions for teaching in 1999–2000 so that they do not lose significant income as a result of the change.
54. The current arrangements for reimbursing the fees of initial teacher training students taking PGCE and certificate courses designed to train teachers in further education, or in post-compulsory education more generally, will continue in 1999–2000. The student support arrangements, including fee reimbursement, in respect of these qualifications will be reviewed for subsequent years, in the light of developments on an initial teacher training qualification for further education.
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55. The Secretary of State welcomes the Council's further advice on how Oxford and Cambridge college fees can best be incorporated within the HEFCE's standard funding method while ensuring that excellence is maintained. He would expect excellence at the two universities to be safeguarded, too, by the substantial new funding for research provided by the settlement (see paras. 35–43 above).
56. He is reassured by the Council's plans to take account of college research staff in allocating funding for research and to ensure that the funding method recognises the extra costs of institutions with old and historic buildings and of small institutions. He agrees with the Council's view that very small institutions can provide a context for distinctive provision and that extra funds to help meet their extra costs can encourage and support diversity. He particularly welcomes the Universities' plans for a redeployment of private funds between the richer and poorer colleges.
57. The Secretary of State notes that, under the Council's proposed approach, the new minimum level of supplementary funding for Oxford and Cambridge, would be £24.2m at 1998–9 prices. On this basis, he has decided to proceed with the transfer to HEFCE grant from 1999–2000 of the public funds which are currently allocated to the colleges through undergraduate college fees. He expects the change to be phased in over a ten year period, as proposed in the Council's advice, and the reduction in any one year for each university to be limited to a maximum of some 0.7 per cent of its annual HEFCE grant and 0.2 per cent of total annual income.
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58. New arrangements will be introduced from 1999–2000 for funding the most talented students at dance and drama schools to succeed the Interim Funding Scheme (the Dearing Report recommendation 77 refers). The grant to the Council will be increased by £12m (i.e. over and above the provision in the Annexe to this letter). This will enable the Council to provide per capita funding in respect of the students concerned at a level which reflects the average costs involved, taking account of student contributions to fees on the same basis as for other HE courses.
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59. The Secretary of State welcomes the agreement reached by the Higher and Further Education Funding Councils on the transfer of funding for HNDs and HNCs to the HEFCE from 1999–2000 onwards, in accordance with recommendation 86 of the Dearing Report. The transfer will be reflected in due course in the amounts of grant made available to both Councils.
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60. As the Council will know, earlier this year £4 million was provisionally transferred to the Department of Health from the Council's 1998–9 grant in respect of professions allied to medicine (PAMs) students. Over the period leading up to the achievement of `steady state' a total transfer of El 9 million will be necessary (in respect of some 7,000 students). The implications for future years have still to be finalised, depending on the phasing of progression to `steady state'.
61. The grant to the Council allows for payment to universities and colleges for the carrying out of administrative functions in relation to students who fall under the new support arrangements for 1999–2000. These payments will replace eligibility and hardship loan payments previously made by the SLC, although the SLC will continue to make payments to universities and colleges in relation to eligibility assessments for old style loan students.
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62. The Secretary of State welcomes the working links that are developing between the Funding Council and the Teacher Training Agency and asks the Council to continue to work closely with the Agency. The student numbers in the Annexe take account of the new targets for intakes to initial teacher training courses. The effect is to increase the number of HEFCE-funded students by some 4,000 and 5,000 in 1999–2000 and 2000–1.<
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63. Universities and colleges will be expected to follow public sector pay policy by taking account of fairness, the need to recruit, motivate and retain staff, and affordability within the limits set by the Comprehensive Spending Review in July. It is a condition of grant that the Council enables institutions to meet any additional costs for medical and dental schools arising from the Government's award to NHS clinicians following the Doctors' and Dentists' Review Body recommendations.
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64. The Council's administration costs are included in
the
recurrent provision
shown in the Annexe. Provision for running costs will be:
| £ million | |||
| Financial year | 1998-9 | 1999-2000 | 2000-1 |
| HEFCE running costs | 9.4 | 10.4 | 10.3 |
66. The Secretary of State asks the Council to continue to make efficiencies and economies in its running costs and to seek increased value for money. The Department will discuss with Council officers the allocation of administration costs in the coming year.
[Signed] R.J. DAWE
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| (£ million) | |||
| Financial year | 1998--9 | 1999--2000 | 2000--1 |
| 1998--9 grants to HEFCE and TTA 1 | 3,674 | --- | --- |
| CSR outcome grants to HEFCE and TTA | --- | 4,138 | 4,268 |
| Public contributions to fees | 1,006 | 599 | 520 |
| Private contributions to fees 2 | 130 | 235 | 333 |
| Total | 4,810 | 4,972 | 5,121 |
| Capital grants for infrastucture and IT | --- | 35 | 50 |
| Capital grants for research | --- | 50 | 100 |
| Measures to widen access | 41 | 74 | 76 |
| Total extra funds over and above 1998--9 | --- | 280 | 496 |
| Student numbers (FTEs in thousands) | 1,023 | 1,035 | 1,052 |
| (£ million) | |||
| Financial year | 1998--9 | 1999--2000 | 2000--1 |
| 1998--9 HEFCE grant | 3,500 3 | --- | --- |
| CSR outcome HEFCE grant | --- | 3,949 | 4,077 |
| Public contributions to fees | 935 | 556 | 481 |
| Private contributions to fees | 126 | 229 | 322 |
| Capital grants for infrastructure and IT | --- | 35 | 50 |
| Capital grants for research | --- | 50 | 100 |
| Total | 4,561 | 4,819 | 5,030 |
| Student numbers (FTEs in thousands) | 959 | 975 | 992 |
1 Includes TTA recurrent and capital grants for
initial teacher training and in-service training for teachers in
higher education institutions.
2 The forecast income that universities and colleges will receive from private contributions to tuition fees, after means testing.
3 This is different from the £3,504m in the 26 November 1997 grant letter because of the net effect of the in-year transfers between HEFCE grant; the HE Access Fund; the FEFC; the TTA; and the Department of Health.
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