hefce priorities john rushforth director. overview context progression retention enhancement funding
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HEFCE Priorities
John Rushforth
Director
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Overview
• Context• Progression• Retention• Enhancement• Funding
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Key Challenges for the Sector
• Quality student learning experience for a student population with increasingly diverse needs.
– Ensure access and progression.
– Support for innovation and development of curriculum and pedagogy.
– Enhance the standing of teaching and reward excellence.
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Expansion of HE
• The economic case is strong• Social benefits• Increasing demand from potential students• Participation in UK is relatively low
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Participation Rate Is Relatively Low
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Social Class Gap Is Wide and Persistent
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More Affluent social classes Less Affluent social classes All Classes
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Strategic Objective
‘We want everyone to benefit from higher education who has the potential to do so’
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Target Groups
Main (but not only) focus is 13-30; also:• Young people aged 13 to 19 from groups
under-represented in HE• Under-represented groups in work, or work-
based learning• People not in training, education or
employment
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Student Progression
• Work place learning• Flexible learning• Vocational qualifications and higher
education• Life Long Learning Networks
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Lifelong learning networks
• Regional or sub regional connections• Seamless progression routes• Guaranteed places• Credit transfer• Student support throughout career• Individual Learning Plans
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Retention
• Something we are good at• Not just now but during time of change• A key element of WP strategy
– ‘We want everyone to benefit from higher education who has the potential to do so’
– PSA target
• Perception of HE
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Figure 3Rates of Initial Entry and Survival in Tertiary Education Programmes 3-5 Years in Length
For 21 OECD Nations
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Rates of Participation and Noncompletion in UK Universities
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Participation Rate
Participation Rate: the number of home domiciled young (under 21) initial entrants into full-time courses of higher education, expressed as a proportion of the averaged 18-19 year old-population of Great Britain
Noncompletion Rate: For 1983/4-1995/6 rate based upon a DfES comparsion of the number of starters and qualifiers; for 1996/97 and later based upon HEFCE projections applied to entering cohort of students.
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Why do people drop out
• Academic• Financial• Personal• Social
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Who is involved
– Schools– Academics– Institutional managers– Support workers– Students
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Professional development
• The white paper calls for all new academic staff to have a teaching qualification(2006) and for external examiners to have induction and CPD for their role.
The opportunity is for HE staff to define the nature of this professional development and to engage with it
The challenge is to gain agreement from multiple groups with different agendas
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National Teaching Fellowships
From 20 to 50 per year• Acknowledgement of different types of
nominee• Three institutional nominationsOpportunity for NTFs to be a powerful
advocates for TeachingChallenge to gain respect for the status of
teaching as much as research
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Centres of Teaching Excellence
– 70 Centres – 200,000 - 500,000 per year for 5 years– Up to £2 million capital funding.
• Stage 1– The case for excellence
• Stage 2– The business case for investment value
• Announcement January 05
Opportunity of a reward for teaching
Challenge to make this an investment effective
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The Higher Education Academy
• Current status– Professor Paul Ramsden – CEO– LTSN, ILTHE and NCT incorporated– Board established– The Council to be developed– Launch October 2004
Opportunity for a real voice for academics in policy and for new funding for R&D
Challenge – to create an effective new academy drawing together existing strands and increasing effectiveness of networks.
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Higher Education Academy:an opportunity
• Ensuring continuity and development of – Professional accreditation– A voice for those developing teaching and learning– Informing leaders and managers about L&T issues– Strong subject networks– Dissemination, information, good practice, ideas and innovation– Coordination of enhancement projects/activities/agencies/networks
• Greater weight in the sector for teaching enhancement– Policy lobby– Focus for L&T activities– Conduit for dissemination of innovation and good practice– Support for scholarship of learning and teaching
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Funding & Fees
• WP - £273 million to institutions in 2003-04:– £49 .2 million outreach– £10.3 million for disabled students– £213.1 million for retention
• Distributed on the basis of risk
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Funding & Fees
• WP - £273 million to institutions in 2003-04:– £49 .2 million outreach– £10.3 million for disabled students– £213.1 million for retention
• Distributed on the basis of risk• HR strategies• L&T strategies• Additional funds for Professional standards
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Funding Levels & Models
• Uplift for inflation• Spending review• The end of postcodes
– Ward participation– Educational achievement
• New PIs ?• T Funding Review
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Fees as an opportunity
• Substantial step change• Unencumbered• Retention as an investment• Virtuous spiral
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Future Issues
• Impact uncertain of Variable Fees– Debt versus cash– Govt rather than student– Market Position
• Office for fair access• Regional agenda
– Shortage subjects
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Conclusions
• Complex and evolving area
• Interconnections means partnership
• Long-term issue