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HEFCE - Higher education info Category: Education Date & country: 28/02/2011, UK Words: 33

ASG
Analytical Services Group. This is a team within HEFCE that is responsible for data collection, handling and analysis, and for calculating recurrent grants for institutions

BDO
BDO Stoy Hayward LLP. A firm commissioned by HEFCE to carry out an audit of London Metropolitan University's 2006-07 HESES data, the preparation of the 2007-08 HESA student record, and to investigate the processes at the University that had led to the incorrect data returns

BoG
Board of governors

CE
Chief executive

CEO
Chief executive officer

CMU
Previously known as Campaigning for Mainstream Universities, it is now known as Million+

DIUS
Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills. Its functions have since June 2009 been taken on by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS)

DVC
Deputy vice-chancellor

FOI
Freedom of Information

FT
Full-time

FTE
Full-time equivalent (student numbers)

HEFCE
Higher Education Funding Council for England

HEPI
Higher Education Policy Institute

HESA
Higher Education Statistics Agency. This collects a variety of information from universities and colleges via data returns. The return that is most relevant to the LMU data and funding issue is the individualised student record, which is submitted after the end of the academic year

HESA-HESES reconciliation
Each year, for every higher education institution, we re-create a HESES return using the final HESA individualised student data for the year. Where there are significant differences between the original and re-created HESES return, institutions are selected to reconcile the two. This reconciliation process can result in funding changes for institutions

HESES
Higher Education Students Early Statistics survey. Institutions submit this directly to us in December each year, giving information about aggregate student numbers for the current academic year. This is the main data source that informs our recurrent teaching grants

HESES03 etc.
The HESES survey for the 2003-04 academic year (1 August 2003 to 31 July 2004), submitted in December 2003

Holdback
A reduction in teaching grant applied within the year for not meeting targets specified in our funding agreement with institutions. In general terms, it arises from insufficient student numbers and will commonly be deducted also from the following year's baseline teaching grant. Reductions in funding are implemented by 'holding back' funding from subsequent grant payments

KPMG
KPMG LLP. A firm commissioned by HEFCE to carry out an independent lessons learned review of our handling of the data and funding issue at London Metropolitan University

LGU
London Guildhall University, one of the two universities that merged to form London Metropolitan University

LMU
London Metropolitan University

LSC
Learning and Skills Council

Moderation (funding)
Funding provided, for one year only, to moderate significant reductions in funding compared with the previous year, to ensure they are manageable for institutions. Institutions will feel the full effect of the reductions in the following year

Non-completion
A student who fails to complete any module within the year of instance is to be returned as a non-completion for all activity in that year. In order to complete a module, the student must either: undergo the final assessment of the module, or pass the module where this can be achieved without undergoing the final assessment. See HESES08 (HEFCE 2008/37), Annex E paragraphs 22 to 31

PwC
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. A firm commissioned by HEFCE to provide independent advice on the process by which the University prepared and on the robustness of its strategic investment plan. This was considered by HEFCE's Board in December 2008

SDF
Strategic Development Fund. In January 2003, the Government's White Paper 'The future of higher education' announced the creation of the SDF, to support change and innovation in the sector. This is a HEFCE fund that builds on our experience of funding large-scale structural change in the higher education sector through our previous Restructuring and Collaboration Fund (R&CF)

SLC
Student Loans Company

TDA
Training and Development Agency for Schools

UG
Undergraduate

UNL
University of North London, one of the two universities that merged to form London Metropolitan University

UUK
Universities UK, the representative body for the executive heads of UK universities

VC
Vice-chancellor

WP
Widening participation: to provide the opportunity of higher education to all those who could benefit from it