The key points to note this year include:
- An increase of £20 million for mainstream quality-related research (QR) and its London weighting, to a total of £1,070 million.
- Maintaining in real terms the total teaching grant budgets for our main high-cost subject allocations.
- Introducing a new fund for geographically focused national collaborative outreach activity that will target those places where students have the educational attainment or potential to succeed in higher education, but where there is evidence that entry rates are below expectations.
- Doubling the funding to improve provision for disabled students to £40 million. The increase is to support institutions to meet the rapid rise in the number of students reporting mental health problems and to transition towards an inclusive social model of support for disabled students.
- The overall amount of funding for teaching continues to decline, predominantly as a result of the continuing phasing-out of funding for students who enrolled under the previous lower fees model.