HEFCE has announced it’s annual funding allocations for 2013-14. These show the amount of teaching grant, research grant and HEIF income to universities. Full details are on the HEFCE website, and there is a related article in the Higher.
From the Times Higher article:
“The drop in total grant is explained by the fact that in 2013-14, another cohort of “old regime” students part-funded by direct teaching grant will have graduated, to be replaced by more “new regime” students for whom funding is largely routed via tuition fees.
Universities with a greater number of longer courses (and therefore more old regime students), high-cost subjects (where teaching grant remains in place) and higher levels of research funding are experiencing gentler declines in their direct funding.
Institutions without those characteristics are being hit by bigger reductions, including Leeds Metropolitan University (down 41.2 per cent for 2013-14) and the University of Sunderland (a decline of 40 per cent).”
The decrease in grant for Staffordshire is 32.9% – a fairly high figure, but to be expected with our lower levels of research funding, fewer high cost subjects and few longer courses.
The table below shows the 40 universities with the biggest reductions in recurrent grant.
| Institution | % Change in funding | total recurrent grant |
| Teesside University | -42.6 | 20,947,116 |
| Leeds Metropolitan University | -41.2 | 25,817,591 |
| Arts University Bournemouth | -41.1 | 3,893,998 |
| Leeds College of Art | -40.7 | 1,697,118 |
| University of Cumbria | -40.6 | 6,984,019 |
| University of Sunderland | -40 | 15,041,844 |
| University for the Creative Arts | -39 | 9,256,743 |
| Newman University | -38.6 | 2,471,293 |
| York St John University | -37 | 4,628,242 |
| Plymouth University | -36.8 | 39,609,200 |
| Edge Hill University | -36.6 | 11,216,315 |
| Bishop Grosseteste University | -36.4 | 1,795,158 |
| The Open University | -36.2 | 97,160,114 |
| University Campus Suffolk | -36.2 | 5,718,356 |
| Leeds Trinity University | -36.2 | 2,439,040 |
| Canterbury Christ Church University | -35.9 | 13,401,169 |
| University of Worcester | -35.6 | 8,187,428 |
| University of Huddersfield | -35 | 23,819,611 |
| Bath Spa University | -34.6 | 8,273,674 |
| University College Birmingham | -34.6 | 5,430,213 |
| University of Greenwich | -34.5 | 28,250,751 |
| University of West London | -34.5 | 10,919,907 |
| University of Winchester | -34 | 5,198,710 |
| Liverpool Hope University | -33.5 | 7,319,021 |
| University of the West of England | -32.9 | 30,209,293 |
| Staffordshire University | -32.9 | 24,109,001 |
| University of Lincoln | -32.8 | 17,494,694 |
| Northumbria University | -32.6 | 29,730,689 |
| University of Chichester | -32.6 | 5,764,359 |
| Birmingham City University | -32.5 | 20,510,786 |
| Bucks New University | -32.4 | 9,370,584 |
| University of Bedfordshire | -32.1 | 15,425,311 |
| Norwich University of the Arts | -32.1 | 3,195,243 |
| University of Derby | -31.8 | 18,815,636 |
| University of Bolton | -31.6 | 9,355,420 |
| University of Northampton | -31.1 | 12,616,610 |
| University of Wolverhampton | -30.9 | 24,897,161 |
| University of Westminster | -30.5 | 28,604,300 |
| University of Chester | -30.5 | 13,123,170 |