Circulars 2010
- W10/30HE: Widening Access to Higher Education Allocations 2010/11 and Related Information
- This circular provides information on institutions’ widening access strategy development in the context of For our Future: the 21st Century Higher Education Strategy and Plan for Wales. It sets out the 2010/11 allocations to be made to institutions to support their implementation of widening access strategies and it offers some brief guidance on our expectations for reporting progress and expenditure through the annual monitoring process.
- Date: 30 July 2010
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary documents: None
- W10/27HE: Consultation on proposed changes to the funding system for higher education in Wales
- This circular sets out for consultation proposed changes to the funding system for higher education in Wales. The proposals respond to the Welsh Assembly Government’s remit that HEFCW should make greater strategic use of funding to achieve the changes and address the priorities identified in For our Future, and to instigate a step change in our approach to funding.
- Date: 22 July 2010
- Response by: 06 September 2010
- Secondary documents: None
- W10/25HE: Redistribution Exercise 2010/11
- This circular sets out the arrangements by which higher education institutions and directly funded further education colleges may redistribute funded credit values for 2010/11, and introduces the STEM incentivisation programme which will provide limited funding for 2010/11 to transfer existing credit values into certain activities in ASC 3, 4 & 6.
- Date: 16 July 2010
- Response by: 01 September 2010
- Secondary documents: None
- W10/24HE: The HEFCW Part-Time Undergraduate Fee Waiver Scheme
- This document describes HEFCW’s part-time undergraduate fee waiver scheme for 2010/11 and sets out the criteria students will need to meet in order to be eligible for fee waiver under the scheme.
- Date: 10 July 2010
- Response by: 05 November 2010
- Secondary Documents:
- W10/23HE: Initial Teacher Training Strategy Fund: Allocations 2010/11
- This circular sets out the allocations for 2010/11 to support the implementation of initial teacher training strategies. This includes for the first time an allocation to the Open University in Wales.
- Date: 09 July 2010
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary documents: None
- W10/22HE: Learning and teaching strategy allocations for 2010/11
- This circular provides information on the learning and teaching strategy allocations to higher education institutions for 2010/11 and confirms the date for return of Annual Monitoring Statements for 2009/10.
- Date: 09 July 2010
- Response by: 05 November 2010
- Secondary documents: None
- W10/20HE: End of Year Monitoring of Higher Education Enrolments 2009/10
- This Circular requests institutions to return aggregated student data to enable HEFCW to calculate any adjustments to 2009/10 funding; monitor information on initial teacher training courses leading to qualified teacher status; and establish final numbers of students and credit values for the academic year 2009/10.
- Date: 15 June 2010
- Response by: 04 August 2010
- Secondary documents: None
- W10/19HE: Additional Support for Part-Time Students 2010/11
- This circular announces allocations for Additional Support for Part-Time Students in 2010/11. The provision is aimed at maintaining and strengthening part-time provision with a particular focus on widening access to higher education and extending links with employers in the delivery of part-time higher education.
- Date: 11 June 2010
- Response by: 12 August 2010
- Secondary Documents:
- W10/18HE: 2010 National Student Survey: Publication of data
- This circular provides information to institutions on the next steps in the 2010 National Student Survey (NSS) process, including how and when to access their 2010 NSS results via both the Ipsos MORI and Unistats web-sites. It will be of interest to those managing the NSS in institutions.
- Date: 09 June 2010
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary documents: None
- W10/15HE: Forecast Requests 2010
- This circular requests HE institutions to submit: financial forecasts for 2009/10 to 2013/14; student number forecasts for 2010/11 to 2013/14; and staff number forecasts for 2009/10 to 2013/14.
- Date: 21 May 2010
- Response by: 23 July 2010
- Secondary Documents:
- W10/14HE: Annual Monitoring Statements 2010
- This circular requests higher education institutions to submit Annual Monitoring Statements for 2010 to enable HEFCW to monitor discrete funding streams.
- Date: 17 May 2010
- Response by: 5 November 2010
- Secondary Documents: None
- W10/13HE: Widening Access to Refugees and Asylum Seekers
- This circular provides information on widening access to higher education for refugees and asylum seekers, including some of the barriers faced in accessing higher-level study and examples of effective practice in providing refugee and asylum seeker support.
- Date: 26 March 2010
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents: None
- W10/12HE: Research Excellence Framework: Consultation Outcomes
- The four UK higher education funding bodies recently consulted on proposals for the future arrangements for the assessment and funding of research – the Research Excellence Framework (REF). This Circular provides information about the high-level outcomes of the consultation and the next steps in implementing the REF.
- Date: 25 March 2010
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents: None
- W10/10HE: Recurrent Grant 2010/11
- This circular sets out how the HEFCW's recurrent grant for teaching, postgraduate research training and research quality for the academic year 2010/11, including some elements of the Strategic Implementation Fund, is to be distributed overall and to individual institutions.
- Date: 24 March 2010
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents: None
- W10/09HE: Outcomes of Consultation on Changes to Funding Arrangements
- This circular provides information on the outcomes of our recent consultation on future changes to funding arrangements and outlines those changes that will be implemented and the timescale for each.
- Date: 23 March 2010
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents: None
- W10/08HE: Developing the HEFCW Corporate Strategy 2010-11 to 2012-13
- This circular attaches for consultation the draft HEFCW Corporate Strategy 2010-11 to 2012-13. The Strategy is based firmly on the Welsh Assembly Government’s publication For our Future, the 21st Century Higher Education Strategy and Plan for Wales.
- Included in this draft are proposed indicators for assessing progress against the delivery of For our Future objectives.
- This circular invites views from higher education institutions and directly-funded further education institutions. Other interested parties are invited to respond through the website.
- Date: 08 March 2010
- Response by: 19 April 2010
- Secondary Documents:
- W10/07HE: Provision of information for students on cost of study
- This circular provides guidelines on good practice in providing timely transparent information on the cost of study to students and prospective students of higher education, including those studying HE in FE. The guidelines are intended to encompass the costs of study experienced by the diverse student body, including part-time and full-time students, and mature and non-traditional students.
- This circular will be of interest to the senior management team and to staff involved in the provision of information to students via marketing and the admissions process, including at subject level.
- Date: 03 March 2010
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents: None
- W10/06HE: Developing a Regional Dimension to the Planning and Delivery of Higher Education
- This circular sets out for consultation our proposals for developing a regional dimension to the planning and delivery of higher education.
- For our Future, the 21st Century Higher Education Strategy and Plan for Wales included the expectation that the Welsh Assembly Government, working with stakeholders and HEFCW, would 'develop a regional dimension to planning and delivery of higher education'.
- In seeking views in this consultation, we have set out the key issues we have considered and the factors we have taken into account in developing our proposals. We then go on to discuss the process which we will adopt to implement regional strategies and we give an indication of our expectations about reconfiguration and collaboration to meet the requirements of the For our Future Strategy.
- Date: 17 February 2010
- Response by: 31 March 2010
- Secondary Documents: None
- W10/05HE: Secondary Initial Teacher Training: Intake targets 2010/11
- This circular sets out secondary initial teacher training intake targets for 2010/11 for the three Centres of Teacher Education and the Open University in Wales. It also includes a report on undergraduate secondary initial teacher training commissioned by HEFCW.
- Date: 03 February 2010
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents: None
- W10/03HE: Outcomes of HEFCW review of support for disabled students
- This circular presents the key outcomes of our research of support for disabled students in the HE sector in Wales. It provides an overview of the progress the sector has made since our guidance to the sector was published in 1999 and areas for development, including good practice for institutions.
- Date: 22 January 2010
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents: None
- W10/02HE: Mechanisms for Supporting the Enhancement of Learning Opportunities
- This circular sets out the key features of HEFCW support for the enhancement by higher education institutions of learning opportunities for students. These mechanisms will also assist in the support of higher education students in further education institutions.
- It comprises the second stage of work which contributed to the HEFCW specification for the revised Institutional Review: Wales (IR) process, developed by the QAA for implementation from 2009/10.
- Date: 19 January 2010
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents: None
- W10/01HE: Procedure for Addressing Unsatisfactory Quality in Institutions in Wales
- This circular details our Unsatisfactory Quality Procedure. Unsatisfactory quality will be determined through the Quality Assurance Agency’s Institutional Review: Wales process, other assessments, inspections or reviews (eg by Estyn or other Professional, Statutory and Regulatory Bodies (PSRBs)), or our strategic engagement with institutions. We will apply the procedure when we consider an institution to be at higher risk in terms of the quality of its provision.
- Date: 12 January 2010
- Response by: No response required
- Secondary Documents: None
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