Circulars 2007
- W07/51HE: Initial Teacher Training: Intake targets 2008/09
- This circular sets out the initial teacher training intake targets for the sector for 2008/09.
- Date: 18 December 2007
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents: None
- W07/50HE: Funding To Support Circular W07/42HE, Enhancing Learning And Teaching Through Technology: A Strategy For Higher Education In Wales
- This circular outlines the means by which we will support Circular W07/42HE, Enhancing Learning and Teaching through Technology: a Strategy for Higher Education in Wales, from 2007/08 to 2009/10.
- Date: 11 December 2007
- Response by: 15 January 2008
- Secondary Documents: None
- W07/49HE: Welsh Medium Provision Development Fund
- This circular presents the outcomes of the consultation on the HEFCW Welsh Medium Provision Development Fund and HEFCW s decisions in the light of the consultation. It also sets out arrangements for the Fund for 2007/08.
- Date: 03 December 2007
- Response by: 20 December 2007
- Secondary Documents: None
- W07/48HE: Research Excellence Framework
- This Circular sets out proposals for the future research assessment framework the Research Excellence Framework (REF) that will be introduced after 2008.
- Date: 22 November 2007
- Response by: 14 February 2008
- Secondary Documents: None
- W07/47HE: Annual TRAC and QAV returns for Academic Year 2006/07
- This circular requests institutions to submit their annual Transparent Approach to Costing (TRAC) Return and the Research Councils Quality Assurance Validation (QAV) Return for 2006/07.
- Date: 03 December 2007
- Response by: 31 January 2008
- Secondary Documents: None
- W07/46HE: Research Activities Survey 2007/08
- This circular requires institutions to provide information for use in the calculation of funds for research for 2008/09.
- Date: 12 November 2007
- Response by: 9 January 2008
- Secondary Documents: None
- W07/45HE: Reaching Wider Funding Guidance 2008/10
- This circular provides information on plans for the 2008 National Student Survey.
- Date: 07 November 2007
- Response by: 4 January 2008
- Secondary Documents: None
- W07/44HE: Teaching Quality Information: plans for the 2008 National Student Survey
- This circular provides information on plans for the 2008 National Student Survey.
- Date: 07 November 2007
- Response by: 19 November 2007
- Secondary Documents: None
- W07/43HE: Higher Education Students Early Statistics Survey 2007/08
- This circular requires institutions to return aggregated student data for 2007/08.
- Date: 23 October 2007
- Response by: 19 November 2007
- Secondary Documents: None
- W07/42HE: Enhancing Learning and Teaching through Technology: a Strategy for Higher Education in Wales
- This circular provides a strategy for enhancing learning and teaching through technology for consultation. Respondents are invited to provide comments in order to inform the development of the final version of the strategy.
- Date: 12 October 2007
- Response by: 30 November 2007
- Secondary Documents: None
- W07/41HE: Future Arrangements for Capital Funding
- This Circular announces the introduction of new arrangements for capital funding from 2008-09 onwards.
- Date: 12 October 2007
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents: None
- W07/40HE: Evaluation and Review of Institutional Race Equality Policies Overview Report
- This circular provides advance notice of a number of Reaching Wider initiative developments including: initiative funding from 2008, an additional allocation to support alignment activities and initial guidance for funding proposals from 2008.
- Date: 05 October 2007
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents: None
- W07/39HE: Higher Education Data Requirements 2007/08
- 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: 04 October 2007
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents: None
- W07/38HE: Reaching Wider Initiative
- This circular provides advance notice of a number of Reaching Wider initiative developments including: initiative funding from 2008, an additional allocation to support alignment activities and initial guidance for funding proposals from 2008.
- Date: 25 September 2007
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents: None
- W07/37HE: Widening Access to Higher Education Feedback
- This circular provides feedback on a number of widening access and disability reports; reports on widening access strategy monitoring arrangements; and confirms details of institutional widening access strategy fund allocations for 2007/08.
- Date: 21 September 2007
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents: None
- W07/36HE: Welsh Medium Premium Payments
- Following work done in 2006 on the costs of Welsh medium provision and subsequent consultation with the sector, this circular provides revised guidance on returning data on Welsh medium provision.
- Date: 11 September 2007
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents: None
- W07/35HE: Additional Support for Part-Time Students 2007/08
- This circular announces allocations for Additional Support for Part-Time Students in 2007/08. The provision is aimed at maintaining and strengthening part-time provision with a particular focus on widening access to higher education.
- Date: 16 August 2007
- Response by: 28 September 2007
- Secondary Documents: None
- W07/34HE: Funding Allocations 2006/07
- This circular informs institutions of financial health performance indicators for the higher education sector in Wales as shown by the audited financial statements for 2005/06.
- Date: 14 August 2007
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents: None
- W07/33HE: Analysis of the financial position of the HE sector 2005/06
- This circular informs institutions of financial health performance indicators for the higher education sector in Wales as shown by the audited financial statements for 2005/06 .
- Date: 02 August 2007
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents: None
- W07/32HE: NUS Wales work to enhance student representation in Wales and to support the Institutional Review Process
- This circular provides a description of NUS Wales work, which we are funding, to enhance student representation in Wales and to support the Institutional Review Process.
- Date: 01 August 2007
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents: None
- W07/31HE: Review of Research Policy: Outcomes
- This Circular presents the finalised versions of the Council s revised statement of its research policy objectives and the associated broad supporting funding scenario.
- Date: 25 July 2007
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents: None
- W07/30HE: The Introduction of Sustainable Building Standards for New Build Construction Projects
- I am writing to you in connection with the advice note issued and circulated by the Welsh Assembly Government on the 16th April 2007, and subsequently revised on the 20th July 2007 in relation to improving sustainability in new building projects.
- Date: 24 July 2007
- Response by: 07 September 2007
- Secondary Documents: None
- W07/29HE: The HEFCW Part-Time Undergraduate Fee Waiver Scheme 2007/08
- This document describes the Council s part-time undergraduate fee waiver scheme for 2007/08 and sets out the criteria students will need to meet in order to be eligible for fee waiver under the scheme.
- Date: 24 July 2007
- Response by: 9 November 2007
- Secondary Documents:
- W07/27HE: Guidance for internal auditors to use in their annual internal audit of HE data systems and processes
- This circular provides guidance for internal auditors to use in their annual internal audit of HE data systems and processes.
- Date: 17 July 2007
- Response by: 30 May 2008
- Secondary Documents: None
- W07/26HE: Access to the 2007 National Student Survey Results and launch of the Unistats Website
- This letter provides information on how to access the 2007 National Student Survey (NSS) results. It also details plans for the launch of the new Unistats site, which replaces the existing Teaching Quality Information (TQI) website.
- Date: 11 July 2007
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents: None
- W07/25HE: Welsh Medium Provision Development Fund: Consultation
- This circular invites views on proposals for the future use of the HEFCW Welsh Medium Provision Fund in the light of the commitment by heads of institutions, through Higher Education Wales (HEW).
- Date: 04 July 2007
- Response by: 27 July 2007
- Secondary Documents: None
- W07/24HE: Evaluation and Review of Institutional Race Equality Policies
- HEFCW has a statutory role, under the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000, to monitor the performance of higher education institutions in relation to their role as employers.
- Date: 11 July 2007
- Response by: 09 November 2007
- Secondary Documents: None
- W07/23HE: End of Year Monitoring of Higher Education Enrolments 2006/07
- This circular requires institutions to return aggregated student data for 2006/07.
- Date: 04 June 2007
- Response by: 02 August 2007
- Secondary Documents: None
- W07/22HE: Annual Monitoring Statements 2007
- This circular requests HE institutions to submit Annual Monitoring Statements for 2007.
- Date: 01 June 2007
- Response by: 09 November 2007
- Secondary Documents: None
- W07/21HE: Redistribution Exercise 2007/2008
- This Circular sets out the arrangements by which Higher Education Institutions and directly funded Further Education Colleges may redistribute funded credit values for 2007/08.
- Date: 18 May 2007
- Response by: 31 August 2007
- Secondary Documents: None
- W07/20HE: Part-Time Undergraduate Fee Wavier Scheme: Monitoring & Reporting
- Circular letter W06/30HE Part-Time Undergraduate Fee Waiver Scheme published on 3 August 2006, set out the reporting requirements associated with the scheme.
- Date: 16 May 2007
- Response by: 15 June 2007 (Annex A); 24 August 2007 (Annex B+C)
- Secondary Documents:
- W07/19HE: Initial Teacher Training (ITT) Strategy Fund: 2007/08 Allocations
- This circular sets out the allocations to be made to institutions in 2007/08 to support the implementation of ITT Strategic Plans.
- Date: 15 May 2007
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents: None
- W07/18HE: Third Mission Funding Arrangements 2007/08 2009/10
- This Circular: announces indicative third mission funding allocations for 2007/08-2009/10; requests institutions to submit an updated third mission strategy; gives notice of a third mission strategy workshop to be held in Newport on 17 May 2007.
- Date: 03 May 2007
- Response by: 31 August 2007
- Secondary Documents: None
- W07/17HE: Audit of Higher Education Funding Data - New Process for 2007
- HEFCW's Audit and Risk Committee has approved the proposals for a new process for the audit of higher education funding data.
- Date: 08 May 2007
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents: None
- W07/16HE: Learning and Teaching Strategies 2007/08 - 2009/10
- This circular invites Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in Wales to submit an updated learning and teaching strategy for the three years 2007/08 to 2009/10.
- Date: 19 April 2007
- Response by: 09 November 2007
- Secondary Documents: None
- W07/15HE: Development of TQI and the NSS: Outcome of Consultation W06/49HE
- This letter summarises the conclusions of the consultation in England and Wales and sets out the decisions made by the UK TQI/NSS Steering Group on the basis of the responses.
- Date: 04 April 2007
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents: None
- W07/14HE: Outcome of the Second consultation of the Institutional Review: Wales W06/47HE
- This Circular provides the outcome of the second consultation on changes which could be made to the Institutional Review (IR) process for Wales, as outlined in Circular W06/47HE.
- Date: 28 March 2007
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents: None
- W07/13HE: Strategic Planning and related requests 2007
- This circular requests HE institutions to submit copies of their latest strategic plans.
- Date: 03 April 2007
- Response by: 20 July 2007
- Secondary Documents: None
- W07/12HE: Recurrent Grant 2007/08
- This circular sets out how the Council s recurrent grant for teaching, postgraduate research training and research quality for the academic year 2007/08 is to be distributed overall and to individual institutions.
- Date: 27 March 2007
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents: None
- W07/11HE: Future Arrangements for Capital Funding: Consultation
- This Circular invites comments on proposals for a revised approach to the Council s arrangements for capital funding from 2008-09 onwards, and announces a consultation event.
- Date: 13 March 2007
- Response by: 2 April 2007 and 18 May 2007
- Secondary Documents: None
- W07/10HE: Reaching Wider Initiative
- This circular informs the sector of a 60k additional allocation to Reaching Wider Partnerships for data collection priorities related to retention and impact assessment and provides guidance for its use.
- Date: 16 March 2007
- Response by: 9 November 2007
- Secondary Documents: None
- W07/09HE: Consultation: The National Evaluation of Widening Access Funded Activities and the Reaching Wider Initiative
- This circular invites institutions views on the findings of the national evaluation of widening access funded activities and the Reaching Wider Initiative.
- Date: 28 February 2007
- Response by: 20 April 2007
- Secondary Documents: None
- W07/08HE: 2004/05 Participation Rates
- This report presents information about the level of participation of higher education (HE) across Wales for the academic years 2002/03, 2003/04 and 2004/05.
- Date: 26 March 2007
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents: None
- W07/07HE: Gender Equality Scheme (GES)
- I attach for your comment a copy of the Gender Equality Scheme prepared by the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW).
- Date: 28 February 2007
- Response by: 5 April 2007
- Secondary Documents: None
- W07/06HE: Energy and Water Targeting and Monitoring Project
- This circular invites institutions to participate within a sector wide scheme of energy and water targeting and monitoring.
- Date: 13 February 2007
- Response by: 2 March 2007
- Secondary Documents: None
- W07/05HE: ITT Intake Targets and Related Issues
- I wrote to you on 4 December 2006 giving sector ITT intake targets for both primary and secondary provision in 2007/08 (Circular W06/54HE).
- Date: 5 February 2007
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents: None
- W07/04HE: Review of Research Policy
- This Circular invites comments on a revised statement of HEFCW s research policy objectives and a broad supporting funding scenario.
- Date: 13 February 2007
- Response by: 27 April 2007
- Secondary Documents: None
- W07/03HE: Statement of the position of e-learning
- Circular W06/22HE Learning and Teaching Strategies 2004/05-2006/07 referred to the developing HEFCW e-learning strategy. This circular provides information on the first stage of this development.
- Date: 29 January 2007
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents: None
- W07/02HE: Primary Initial Teacher Training intake targets 2007/08
- Primary Initial Teacher Training intake targets 2007/08.
- Date: 25 January 2007
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents: None
- W07/01HE: Reimbursement of fees for ERASMUS/SOCRATES students
- Each year the Welsh Assembly Government makes funds available within the Council s grant to allow for the remission of fees of students studying abroad as part of the Erasmus/Socrates scheme.
- Date: 22 January 2007
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents: None
