Detailed presentation on our proposals for student number control

Proposals for student number

controls in 2012-13

Presentation outline

• Entrant controls in 2012-13

• AAB+ equivalent students

• Core and margin

Entrant controls in 2012-13

• Government plans to free up student number controls for

around a quarter of student entrants

• Need to control the cost of the system, through controls

on student numbers, remains

• SNC will continue to apply to full-time UG and PGCE

entrants

• Institutions’ number controls will be reduced to allow

AAB+ and core-margin

• We anticipate further changes from 2013-14 (e.g. part-

time)

AAB+ equivalent students

• Unrestrained recruitment of AAB+ equivalent population

• Relatively stable population of around 70,000

• Government goals:

• competition for places on selective courses

• opportunity for more students to go to first choice

institution if that university wishes to take them

• “AAB will represent a starting point”


• What is AAB+ equivalent?

• Best three A-levels

• BTEC National Diploma (Distinction, Distinction, Distinction)

• Best five Scottish Highers (A, A, B, B, B)

• Best four Irish Leaving Certificates (A1, A1, A1, B1)

• Grade A from a CACHE Level 3 diploma in Child Care and Education

• Grade D1 from an OCR National Extended Diploma

• A distinction from a NPTC Level 3 Land Based Extended Diploma

• Grade A* from a Progression Diploma

• International Baccalaureate (29 points)

• A first degree

• A postgraduate taught or research degree


• How we will take away numbers

• Pro rata reductions:

• 7,500 UMF numbers (previously planned)

• 4,000 growth in AAB+ equivalent population

• Institution-specific reductions (2010-11 HESA data)

• Medicine and dentistry students

• Previously recruited AAB+ students

• Institutional core SNC remains


• All institutions will be able to recruit as many AAB+

equivalent students as they want to and are able to

• Institutional core SNC remains

• (less reduction to create margin for £7.5k provision)

• Medicine and dentistry numbers still subject to separate

allocations and controls

Consultation question 4

We have been asked by the

Government to remove

students achieving AAB+

equivalent from the student

number controls. Do you have

any comments on our

proposed method of

implementing this?


• We are interested in the impact on:

• widening participation, and fair access and social

mobility

• spread of provision across subject areas, for example

SIVS

• equality and diversity

• particular types of institution

• any other areas

Core and margin

• Flexible margin of 20,000 entrant places

• Quality provision

• Average net fee of £7,500 or less

• Government goals:

• make it easier for FECs and non-traditional providers

• Introduce competition to incentivise efficient

operation

• Government expects to increase the size of this margin

Core and margin

• How we will create the margin

• 20,000 cut (about 8%) from core remaining after

adjustments for AAB+ etc

• No cut from institutions without an Access Agreement

Core and margin

• How we will redistribute the margin

• Institutions bid for a number of places

• Panel decides allocations

End of October 2011 Call for bids, including detailed information on criteria

Early December 2011 Deadline for proposals

January 2012 Baseline student number controls confirmed

March 2012 Allocations confirmed as part of grant announcement

Core and margin

• Fee levels

• Average fee, net of fee waivers, of £7,500

• Institutions will, as part of bid, formally commit to fee

below £7,500

• Institutions will be asked to confirm fee level below

£7,500 when admissions process is complete

Core and margin

• Quality provision

• No single measure or metric – bids to draw on

sector-wide indicators of quality, for example:

• QAA audits/reviews

• Benchmarked NSS results

• HESA non-continuation and completion rates

• Evidence at a course level, where this is

available

Core and margin

• Other criteria

• Evidence the institution can reasonably be expected

to fill the places they are bidding for

• Additional Government priorities may emerge

Core and margin

• What happens if fewer than 20,000 places are

reallocated?

• What happens if more than 20,000 places are requested?

• What happens if places are allocated but not

subsequently filled?

Consultation question 5

The Government has asked us to

consult on a core/margin approach

to re-allocating places towards lower

fee provision in order to increase

choice, competition and fee

diversity. Do you have any

comments on our proposed method

of implementation?

Core and margin• We are interested in the impact on:

• fee levels

• spread of provision across subject areas, for example

SIVS

• equality and diversity

• particular types of institution

• widening participation, including fair access and

social mobility

• student choice

• promoting diverse provision

• Any other areas

Indicative income for new-regime full-time undergraduates

Basic rates excluding London weighting

HEFCE Price

Group A

HEFCE Price

Group B

HEFCE Price

Group C

HEFCE Price

Group D

Old regime (up to 2011-12 entry)

HEFCE teaching grant £13,335 £4,894 £3,426 £2,325

Regulated fee £3,375 £3,375 £3,375 £3,375

Total (2011-12 prices) £16,710 £8,269 £6,801 £5,700

New regime (from 2012-13 entry)

Approximate HEFCE

teaching grant

£10,000 £1,500 0 0

Maximum regulated fee £6,000 - £9,000 £6,000 - £9,000 £6,000 - £9,000 £6,000 - £9,000

Total (2012-13 prices) £16,000 - £19,000 £7,500 - £10,500 £6,000 - £9,000 £6,000 - £9,000

These rates do not include non-mainstream teaching funding