Rather than withdraw funding from institutions, couldn HEFCE ask institutions to redistribute funding internally from ELQ students to students who are new to higher education (HE)?
This approach would prove difficult, as we could not guarantee the savings requested by the Government. We would also need to put in place rigorous student number targets in order to ensure that institutions recruit new entrants to replace their ELQ students. The process of monitoring these would be burdensome for institutions, and institutions would be subject to holdback if they did not achieve them. There is therefore no guarantee that this proposal would increase financial stability for institutions. It is also unclear whether this approach would serve the Government’s aims. One of the stated aims of the ELQ policy is to divert funding from students studying for an ELQ to students who are entering HE for the first time. Given the distinct mission of institutions, some redistribution of funding between institutions may be necessary in order to achieve this aim.
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