Twenty five higher education institutions (HEIs) receive institution-specific funding. This funding comes on top of standard funding from HEFCE for education, research and other activities, and recognises the cost and distinctive nature of their provision and the public value they bring.
A fundamental review of this stream of funding is taking place in 2015-16. This is to ensure that the funding goes to support and enhance specialist institutions where they are providing world-leading teaching.
As part of the review, institutions have provided evidence about how concentrated their provision is, their higher costs and have also described their world-leading teaching outputs. See the approach for this review.