This circular requests further education institutions to return data to enable HEFCW to calculate credit-based teaching funding for 2017/18, calculate any adjustments to 2015/16 funding and establish final numbers of students and credit values at further education institutions for 2015/16. It also gives definitions and guidance to higher education institutions about the end of year data that are extracted from the 2015/16 HESA student record via the HESA Information Reporting Interface Service (IRIS) to calculate credit-based teaching funding for 2017/18, calculate any adjustments to 2015/16 funding, monitor information on initial teacher training courses and establish final numbers of students and credit values at higher education institutions for 2015/16.
Date:
12 October 2016