Donald Hedges – Following the attendance of Bill Rammell at Conference 2008
Pro-tem report for South Regional Forum on HEFCE estimates 2007-8 to 2011/11 (OU)
Item One – 2007 to 2008
Summary of funding changes 2007-08 to 2010-11
Institution Mainstream funding for non-ELQ students 100,777,907
2007-08 Mainstream funding for exempted ELQ students 2,061,610
2007-08 Mainstream funding for ELQ students aiming for a SIVS qualification 4,896,640
2007-08 Mainstream funding for ELQ students to be phased out 31,628,519
2007-08 Total Funding 139,364,677
2007-08
Open University
This table shows the figures as currently projected by Hefce November 2007. The total funding is £139,364,677 of which £100,777,907 is for current mainstream non ELQ students for the year just passed.
The mainstream funding for exempted ELQ students is £2,061,610 and the funding stream for Study in Vulnerable and Specialist subjects is £4,896,640. The money that is earmarked to be phased out from ELQ students is £31,628,519.
The money obviously has not obviously been phased out from the year just gone but it shows the government and Hefce thinking along these lines and what they do intend to phase out eventually., I think that is quite a clear statement of the rationale behind these moves.
Item 2 – 2008 to 2009
Mainstream funding for non-ELQ students 103,498,911
2008-09 Mainstream funding for exempted ELQ students 2,117,274
2008-09 Targeted allocation for non-exempt ELQ students aiming for a SIVS qualification 5,028,850
2008-09 Supplement to part-time targeted allocation 0
2008-09 Transitional funding for ELQ students currently in the system 22,955,962
2008-09 Safety net funding 5,763,681
2008-09 Total Funding 139,364,677
2008-09
This table shows the position from 2008-2009
The total funding is of the same value for 2007-2008.
The mainstream funding is £3m more, which I believe the Minister did mention in his speech. The exempted value is about £2m and the targeted allocated for strategic and vulnerable subjects is £5m.
In order to shield the University from the nastiest effects of taking £31m, the government and Hefce is giving £28m in transitional and safety net funding.
The difference thus indicated is £0 but the £31m is now cleverly hidden in three groups of numbers which themselves total £31m. This clever figure juggling shows that we have lost nothing. We have in fact still lost £31m but the reliefs and increases hide what we have really lost.
For the other years in question, the figures are broadly the same, for example in 2009-2010, the mainstream funding for non ELQs has again been increased by £3m.
I have attached a spreadsheet in another file so that delegates to the Regional Forum South can see what the figures are doing.
Now the real question is, what does the University do when the transitional funding and safety net provision comes to a stop in 2010-2011? That is the real question that needs to be answered.
Copyright Donald Hedges 2008 with specific permission for OUSA Regional Forum South Only to use this report.
The spreadsheet is not copyright because it is in the public domain.
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