Circulars 2006
- W06/57HE: Financial Health Monitoring
- I am writing to inform you of a change to the financial health monitoring system used by HEFCW with respect to the submission of the Mid-Year return.
- Date: 21 December 2006
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents: None
- W06/56HE: Welsh Medium Premium Consultation
- This circular invites institutions to provide views on a range of options under consideration in respect of funding for Welsh medium provision.
- Date: 20 December 2006
- Response by: Stage 1: 19 January 2007; Stage 2: 17 February 2007
- Secondary Documents: None
- W06/55HE: Welsh Medium Provision Fund 2006/07
- I am writing to inform you of the arrangements for the Welsh Medium Provision Fund for 2006/07.
- Date: 19 December 2006
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents: None
- W06/54HE: ITT Intake Targets 2007/08
- I am writing to inform you of the initial teacher training (ITT) intake targets for the sector for 2007/08. The letter which we have received from the Welsh Assembly Government setting out the targets is attached at Annex A.
- Date: 04 December 2006
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents:
- W06/53HE: Financial Contingency Funds 2005/06: Monitoring
- Circular W06/29HE, Terms and Conditions for Payment of Grants for the Purposes of Financial Contingency Funds 2006/07, set out the monitoring requirements for 2005/06 Financial Contingency Funds. I am now writing to request the returns required for monitoring.
- Date: 15 November 2006
- Response by: 31 January 2007
- Secondary Documents:
- W06/52HE: Study of the Extent and Effectiveness of Existing Student Representation Structures within Higher Education Institutions across Wales
- This circular presents the final report on the Study of the Extent and Effectiveness of Existing Student Representation Structures within Higher Education Institutions across Wales.
- Date: 15 November 2006
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents:
- W06/51HE: Transparency Review reporting for Academic Year 2005/06
- I am writing to ask you to submit your institution s annual Transparency Review return for 2005/06. A response is required by 31 January 2007.
- Date: 15 November 2006
- Response by: 31 January 2007
- Secondary Documents: None
- W06/50HE: 2006 HE-business and community interaction (HE-BCI) survey
- The arrangements for the 2006 annual survey of interactions between higher education institutions (HEIs) and business and the wider community.
- Date: 15 November 2006
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents:
- W06/49HE: Development of the TQI the NSS
- This letter describes the more specific plans and proposals for TQI and the NSS, and invites comments on some of these proposals.
- Date: 13 November 2006
- Response by: 06 December 2006
- Secondary Documents:
- W06/48HE: Research Activity Survey 2006/2007
- This circular requires institutions to provide information for use in the calculation of funds for research for 2007/08.
- Date: 10 November 2006
- Response by: 09 January 2007
- Secondary Documents: None
- W06/47HE: Second Consultation on Institutional Review
- This circular invites heads of Higher Education Institutions to consider whether they wish to see amendments to the Institutional Review: Wales, in line with those made to Institutional Audit in England and Northern Ireland.
- Date: 07 November 2006
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents: None
- W06/46HE: Institutional Review: Wales
- This circular reports the outcome of the consultation on the change in outcome judgements for the Institutional Review: Wales.
- Date: 07 November 2006
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents: None
- W06/45HE: Adjustment to the 2005/06 grant for teaching FE s
- Adjustment to the 2005/06 grant for teaching
- Date: 26 October 2006
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents: None
- W06/44HE: Adjustment to the 2005/06 grant for teaching HEI s
- Adjustment to the 2005/06 grant for teaching.
- Date: 26 October 2006
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents: None
- W06/43HE: Participation rates for Welsh students in Higher Education within the UK during 2003/04
- This circular requires institutions to return aggregated student data for 2006/07.
- Date: 23 October 2006
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents: None
- W06/42HE: Higher Education Students Early Statistics Survey 2006/07
- This circular requires institutions to return aggregated student data for 2006/07.
- Date: 16 October 2006
- Response by: 17 November 2006
- Secondary Documents: None
- W06/41HE: Disability Equality Scheme Consultation
- I attach for your comment a copy of the Disability Equality Scheme prepared by the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW).
- Date: 09 October 2006
- Response by: 13 November 2006
- Secondary Documents:
- W06/40HE: Financial Contingency Funds 2005/06: Unspent Allocation
- As you will be aware, each year HEFCW issues, on behalf of the Welsh Assembly Government, Financial Contingency Funds to institutions with HE provision.
- Date: 04 October 2006
- Response by: 06 November 2006
- Secondary Documents:
- W06/39HE: Higher Education Data Requirements 2006/07
- This circular informs institutions of the higher education data used in the calculation of funding allocations, for monitoring purposes, for informing policy and for publication.
- Date: 19 September 2006
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents: None
- W06/38HE: Third Mission Funding Arrangements 2007/08 2009/10
- This circular sets out HEFCW's proposed funding arrangements for HEFCW's next three year Third Mission Fund cycle (2007/08-2009/10).
- Date: 22 August 2006
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents: None
- W06/37HE: Funding Enrolments 2004/05
- Funding Enrolments 2004/05.
- Date: 22 August 2006
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents: None
- W06/36HE: Funding Allocations 2005/06
- Funding Allocations 2005/06.
- Date: 17 August 2006
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents: None
- W06/35HE: Energy Management Advanced Targeting and Monitoring System
- HEFCW has worked with the sector and in partnership with the Carbon Trust to develop and implement practical measures to address those recommendations.
- Date: 14 August 2006
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents: None
- W06/34HE: Institutional Review: Wales
- At its meetings in April and July 2006, the Council's Learning and Teaching Committee considered amendments which have been to the institutional audit process in England. These amendments have now been incorporated into the new QAA Handbook for institutional audit.
- Date: 14 August 2006
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents: None
- W06/33HE: Plans for the National Student Survey and Teaching Quality Information website
- This letter outlines our plans for TQI and NSS in the short term.
- Date: 11 August 2006
- Response by: 25 August 2006
- Secondary Documents:
- W06/32HE: Higher Education Academy Subscription Allocations for 2006/07
- Further to circular W06/22HE I am now able to set out the allocations to be made to institutions in 2006/07 to fund subscriptions to the Higher Education Academy, following confirmation by the Academy of the amounts.
- Date: 14 August 2006
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents: None
- W06/31HE: Audit of Higher Education Funding Data 2005/06 - Auditors' Notes for Guidance
- This circular provides guidance for external auditors to use during the annual audit of higher education funding data.
- Date: 03 August 2006
- Response by: 20 October 2006
- Secondary Documents: None
- W06/30HE: The HEFCW part-time undergraduate fee wavier scheme
- This circular provides guidance on the Financial Contingency Fund 2006/07.
- Date: 02 August 2006
- Response by: To be confirmed
- Secondary Documents: None
- W06/29HE: Financial Contingency Fund 2006/07: Guidance
- This circular provides guidance on the Financial Contingency Fund 2006/07.
- Date: 02 August 2006
- Response by: To be confirmed
- Secondary Documents: None
- W06/28HE: Strategic Support for 2008 RAE
- This circular announces the provision of additional targeted funding to assist institutions with their preparations for the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE).
- Date: 18 July 2006
- Response by: 31 August 2006
- Secondary Documents: None
- W06/27HE: Widening Access Guidance
- This circular invites institutions to submit HEFCW Widening Access Progress Reports and Disability Development Plans for 2005/06 and new Widening Access Strategies, including Disability Development Plans for 2006/09.
- Date: 13 July 2006.
- Response by: 10 November 2006
- Secondary Documents: None
- W06/26HE: Proposed Arrangements for Establishing a ceiling on fulltime undergraduate student numbers
- The purpose of this letter is to inform the sector of proposed arrangements for establishing a ceiling on full-time undergraduate student numbers for 2006/07.
- Date: 12 July 2006
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents: None
- W06/25HE: Initial Teacher Training: Reconfiguring Provision
- Attached is a copy of a letter from Philip Rogers, at the Welsh Assembly Government, giving indicative targets for ITT from 2007-08 to 2010-11.
- Date: 12 July 2006
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents: None
- W06/24HE: Accounts direction to Higher Education Institutions for 2005/06 and 2006/07
- This circular provides information on HEFCW's requirements for the format of their audited financial statements.
- Date: 11 July 2006
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents: None
- W06/23HE: Audit of Higher Education Funding Data Proposed New Process
- HEFCW is currently reviewing the process for auditing higher education funding data with the aim of reducing the burden on institutions whilst maintaining a high level of assurance.
- Date: 11 July 2006
- Response by: 31 October 2006
- Secondary Documents: None
- W06/22HE: Learning & Teaching Strategies 2004/05-2006/07
- This circular sets out the allocations to be made to institutions in 2006/07 to support Learning and Teaching (L & T) Strategies.
- Date: 29 June 2006
- Response by: 10 November 2006
- Secondary Documents: None
- W06/21HE: Annual Audit of Higher Education Funding Data
- An independent external audit of the higher education funding data supplied during the 2005/06 academic year should be undertaken in autumn 2006 with audit reports submitted to HEFCW by mid October 2006.
- Date: 29 June 2006
- Response by: 14 July 2006
- Secondary Documents: None
- W06/20HE: Race Equality Polices, Action Plans and Reports
- This circular letter reports further on HEFCW's monitoring arrangements for institutional race equality policies and reports, and notes future arrangements.
- Date: 4 July 2006
- Response by: 21 July 2006
- Secondary Documents:
- Race Equality Action Reports and Assessment Feedback
- W06/19HE: End of Year Monitoring of Higher Education Enrolments 2005/06
- This circular requires institutions to return aggregated student data for 2005/06.
- Date: 8 June 2006
- Response by: 02 August 2006
- Secondary Documents: None
- W06/18HE: Redistribution Exercise 2006/07
- This Circular sets out the arrangements by which Higher Education Institutions and directly funded Further Education Colleges may redistribute funded credit values for 2006/07.
- Date: 7 June 2006
- Response by: 31 August 2006
- Secondary Documents: None
- W06/17HE: Initial Teacher Training (ITT) Strategic Funding; 2006/07 Allocations and Annual Monitoring Statement 2006
- This circular sets out the allocations to be made to institutions in 2006/07 to support ITT developments through the ITT Strategic Funding Mechanism.
- Date: 31 May 2006
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents: None
- W06/16HE: Initial Teacher Training (ITT) Reconfiguring Provision
- Attached is a copy of the remit letter which we have received from the Welsh Assembly Government on reconfiguring initial teacher training (ITT) provision
- Date: 30 May 2006
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents: None
- W06/15HE: Strategic Planning and Related Requests 2006
- This circular requests HE institutions to submit: copies of their latest strategic plans; latest updates againist Reaching Higher Targets; financial forecasts for 2005/06 to 2009/10; student number forecasts for 2006/07 to 2009/10; staff number forecasts.
- Date: 15 May 2006
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents: None
- W06/14HE: Analysis of the Financial Position of the HE Sector 2004/05
- This circular informs institutions of financial health performance indicators for the higher education sector in Wales as shown by the audited financial statements for 2004/05.
- Date: 15 May 2006
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents: None
- W06/13HE: A New Disability Coordination Service for HEIs in Wales
- This circular reports the outcome of the above consultation (HEFCW W05/34HE) and attaches a job description for the new HEFCW post of Disability and Diversity Co-ordinator. A report of the outcome of the consultation is attached.
- Date: 12 May 2006
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents: None
- W06/12HE: Part-time Undergraduate Fee Waiver Scheme & Monitoring and Reporting
- Requesting the reports as follows: A statement of expenditure on publicity; The actual value of fees waived; Data on the students for whom fees have been waived.
- Date: 9 May 2006
- Response by: 16 June 2006
- Secondary Documents:
- W06/11HE: Guidance on partnership arrangements between Higher and Further Education Institutions
- Final version of Guidance on partnership arrangements between Higher and Further Education Institutions.
- Date: 27 April 2006
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents:
- Guidance
- W06/10HE: Study of the Extent and Effectiveness of Existing Student Representation Structures within Higher Education Institutions across Wales
- HEFCW has commissioned York Consulting Ltd(YCL) to undertake a study of the extent and effectiveness of existing student representation structures within higher education across Wales.
- Date: 16 March 2006
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents: None
- W06/09HE: Recurrent Grant 2006/07
- This circular sets out HEFCW's recurrent grant for teaching, postgraduate research training and research quality for the academic year 2006/07 is to be distributed overall and to individual institutions.
- Date: 23 March 2006
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents: None
- W06/08HE: Widening Access
- This circular announces an additional allocation to support widening access priorities in 2005/06 and 2006/07.
- Date: 05 April 2006
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents: None
- W06/07HE: JISC Capital Infrastructure Programme
- HEFCW will be joining with HEFCE in a major ICT Capital Infrastructure Programme which is being established by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)
- Date: 07 March 2006
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents: None
- W06/06HE: Primary and Secondary ITT Intake Targets 2006/07
- Informing Institutions of the primary and secondary intake targets for 2006/07.
- Date: 07 March 2006
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents:
- Annex A
- Annex B
- W06/05HE: Widening Access Strategy Implementation Plans/Disability Provision Development Plans 2004/05 and 2005/06, Race Equality Impact Assessments in Widening Access
- Widening Access Strategy Implementation Plans/Disability Provision Development Plans 2004/05 and 2005/06, Race Equality Impact Assessments in Widening Access.
- Date: 20 February 2006
- Response by: 31 March 2006
- Secondary Documents: None
- W06/04HE: Higher Education & Further Education Colleges Guidance, Consultation
- This contains a set of guidance principles, to which has been appended a more detailed commentary and background information.
- Date: 24 January 2006
- Response by: 06 March 2006
- Secondary Documents: None
- W06/03HE: Widening Access
- This circular informs institutions of a number of developments relating broadly to widening access.
- Date: 12 January 2006
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents:
- Annex
- W06/02HE: Reimbursement of fees for ERASMUS/Socrates Students
- Each year the Welsh Assembly Government makes funds available within the HEFCW's grant to allow for the remission of fees of students studying abroad as part of the Erasmus/Socrates scheme.
- Date: 10 January 2006
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents: None
- W06/01HE: Modern Foreign Languages
- This circular: i) informs institutions of the outcomes of the consultation on A strategic review of modern language provision in HEFCW-funded higher education institutions, and shares ideas on good practice and future action; and ii) invites higher education in Wales.
- Date: 06 January 2006
- Response by: 17 February 2006
- Secondary Documents: None
