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I expect many of you
have seen Toby West-Taylor's letter of 31 March by now. HEFCE don't seem to have
needed very long to decide their response to the DIUS
committee.
I have a technical
question. It looks to me that where FUNDLEV and QUALAIM are in conflict, HEFCE
are using FUNDLEV to determine their calculated field ELQAIM, which determines
whether the student is an ELQ student or not.
For programmes which
are UG in level but PG in time (such as graduate conversion diplomas in e.g. Law
or Psychology), FUNDLEV is indeterminate - the HESES rules would allow either UG
or PGT FUNDLEVs as far as I can see. If I understand it correctly, then an
institution returning graduate diplomas as PGT to HESES will have retained
funding whilst we returned them as UG and have lost funding.
I could deal with
this by asking HEFCE to let me 'correct' my HESA data, but I think the HESA data
were right - the programme was validated at UG level and we returned it at UG
level. I know a lot of other institutions have similar provision and there are
pretty substantial numbers at stake, but would anyone be willing to share views
about how they have returned data, whether the numbers are now subject to ELQs
and whether they think I am in the wrong about return of graduate
diplomas?
Thanks
Andrew
University of
East London
Dr
Andrew Fisher ●
Head
of Strategic Planning ● External & Strategic
Development Services (ESDS)
Docklands
Campus, 4-6
University Way,
London
E16
2RD
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020 8223 2006 ●
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