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Dept for Education and Skills

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Mr. Andrew Turner: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the average cost was to public funds of (a) support, (b) teaching and (c) university infrastructure costs attributable to each higher education student in each year since 1997. [105939] Margaret Hodge: Available data on average maintenance per student from public funds and the average student loan taken out from academic years 1997-98 to 2001-02 (latest year available) are given in the following table: Student support provision: Academic year 1997-98 to 2001-021 £ _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Academic year 1997-98 1998-99 1999-2000 2000-01 2001-02 (Provisional) Average loans2,3 Student Support Scheme 6-- 2,580 3,150 3,100 3,120 Students4,5 Mandatory Award Scheme 1,530 1,520 1,470 1,450 1,500 Students7 All Students 1,530 1,870 2,570 2,900 3,070 Average maintenance2 Student Support Scheme 6-- 690 120 140 9-- Students4, 5, 8 Mandatory Award Scheme 1,210 1,190 1,150 1,130 9-- Students7 All Students 1,210 1,030 510 270 9-- _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 Tuition fees and maintenance support are assessed by Local Education Authorities (LEAs) in England and Wales to eligible students normally domiciled in their area; student loans are available to eligible students normally domiciled in the United Kingdom. 2 Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10. 3 Student loans are available to most `home' students on full-time undergraduate HE courses (and students on full-time and part-time postgraduate courses of initial teacher training) normally domiciled in the United Kingdom. 4 New student support arrangements in higher education came into effect in September 1998. For the first year of the new scheme, eligible new entrants received support for living costs through both grants and loans. Grants, which were assessed against family income, on average formed about a quarter of the support available. All students were entitled to a non income-assessed loan, which comprised the remaining three quarters of support available. 5 New entrants to higher education in 1999-2000, together with those who started in 1998-99, received support for living costs mainly through loans which are partly income-assessed. Grants for living costs are no longer available except for some limited allowances, e.g. for students with dependants; single parent students; and disabled students. Grants for students with dependants and single parent students are income-assessed but the Disabled Students' Allowance is not. 6 Not applicable. 7 Students who entered higher education up to 1997-98 and those who entered from 1998-99 under existing arrangements. 8 Maintenance expenditure for student support scheme students from 1999-2000 relates only to additional allowances/grants available to eligible students for extra help depending on their circumstances, e.g. students with disabilities, students with dependents, single parent students, those incurring certain travel costs, and those who have recently left care. 9 Not available. Source: Student Loans Company, F503G survey of local education authorities The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) provides funding for research, teaching and for ear-marked capital for higher education institutions in England through its funding method. Higher education institutions are able to allocate this according to their own priorities and also draw on other sources of funding, both public and private. This means that separate estimates of public funding per student for teaching and infrastructure are notional. The total HEFCE allocations for teaching and infrastructure costs for each academic year since 1997, and the implied notional costs per student, are shown in the following table. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Teaching £ million Per Student FTE (£) Infrastructure £ million Per Student FTE (£) 1997-98 2,342 2,546 0 0 1998-99 2,690 2,965 0 0 1999-2000 2,926 3,066 85 89 2000-01 3,020 3,185 150 158 2001-02 3,151 3,295 240 250 2002-03 3,268 3,390 300 311 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

105939; 403 c554-6W

Session

2002-03

Subjects

Fees and charges Expenditure Higher education Loans Standards Teachers Students Per capita costs

Contains statistics

Yes

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