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Dept for Education and Skills

Answer

Mr. Cousins: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what funding her Department has provided for (a) teaching, (b) research and (c) staff development since 1996-97 for (i) Newcastle and (ii) Northumbria universities. [215063] Dr. Howells: The latest information is given in the tables. Recurrent funding for university of Newcastle-upon-Tyne1 £000 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Recurrent funds for Teaching Research Funds for rewarding teaching and and developing research staff 2 1997-98 52,331 34,009 18,322 -- 1998-99 57,641 36,710 20,930 -- 1999-2000 59,033 38,226 20,807 -- 2000-01 61,205 40,334 20,871 -- 2001-02 65,404 42,672 21,503 1,229 2002-03 69,945 45,177 22,885 1,884 2003-04 75,475 46,718 25,948 2,809 2004-05 81,276 53,752 27,524 -- _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Recurrent funding for university of Northumbria1 £000 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Recurrent funds for Teaching Research Funds for rewarding teaching and and developing research staff 2 1997-98 33,517 32,380 1,137 -- 1998-99 37,942 36,577 1,365 -- 1999-2000 38,995 37,510 1,485 -- 2000-01 39,498 37,982 1,515 -- 2001-02 41,756 39,294 1,553 909 2002-03 43,689 41,083 1,266 1,339 2003-04 46,839 43,930 895 2,015 2004-05 51,206 50,257 949 -- _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 Funding figures show HEFCE recurrent grant for teaching and research only. They exclude other HEFCE grants such as for capital and other special initiatives. They also exclude funding from other public sources, such as the SLC, NHS, TTA, LSC, research councils etc. 2 Funding for rewarding and developing staff was first allocated for 2001-02 and transferred into teaching grant in 2004-05. Source: HEFCE

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

430 c1391W; 215063

Session

2004-05

Subjects

Finance Higher education Universities Teachers Research Newcastle University Northumbria University

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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