The Higher Education Funding Council for England has a funding agreement with each institution that it funds that specifies the targets relating to student numbers that the Funding Council expects the institution to meet. This document explains the action the Council will take if institutions do not meet their targets for 2001-2002. The…

Packaging is the process of finding the best combination of aid to meet a student's financial need for college, given limited resources and the institutional constraints that vary from school to school. This guide to packaging under the EDExpress software system outlines three steps to packaging. The first is determining the student's need for…

This document summarizes the provisional allocations of recurrent funding and maximum student numbers to higher education institutions in England. The Higher Education Funding Council for England allocated 4,757 million British pounds for distribution in 2000-2001. This allowed the maintenance of the unit of funding for teaching and research in…

This document announces the outcome of bids for additional student places and funds for 2000-2001. Each year the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) allocates additional funded students places in response to competitive bids. The framework for allocating these extra numbers is designed to enable institutions to respond to changes…

This "consultation" notifies interested parties of the plans by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) to introduce recruitment incentives for teaching staff in higher education, also known as "golden hellos." These are being introduced from 2003-2004 to encourage new entrants to teaching in higher education…

This bulletin summarizes the latest and most comprehensive research and serious and violent juvenile (SJV) offenders taken from a report by the Study Group on Serious and Violent Juvenile Offenders. It describes characteristics of SVJ offenders and predictors of SVJ offending. Some interventions to prevent offenses by SVJs are reviewed. Recently…

This paper is intended to provide a solid base of information about the treatment of indirect university research costs in various jurisdictions and to highlight some of the factors that have contributed to increased interest in the issues surrounding the funding of indirect costs of research. University research in Ontario has continued to evolve…

A workgroup of chief business officers from a diverse array of districts met over several months to make recommendations on changes to the community college funding formula. The following report is the product of the workgroup?s deliberations and is submitted for the review of the CCCT and CEOCCC boards and the broader community college system.…

The Capital Construction Budget Recommendations and Prioritization 2005-2007 Biennium provides the Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education's funding and priority recommendations on capital construction budget requests from the Nebraska State Colleges, the University of Nebraska, and the Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture at…

After a reduction of ten percent in FY04, Oklahoma institutions have budgeted an overall increase of 3.4 percent in state appropriations support for FY05. The FY05 E&G Part 1 budget shows an overall increase of 7.5 percent or $97 million, comprised of 50.3 percent in state support and 49.7 percent in self-generated revolving funds, primarily from…

Discusses the theory of administrative cost accounting known as "internal pricing" for the purpose of describing how it is currently affecting the operations of academic departments. (Author)

One school district's experience with PPBS demonstrates that it can be an effective instrument for realistic involvement of the instructional staff in the development of system goals, objectives, and spending priorities. (Author)

Article describes a practical method for identifying and assigning costs of products and services in an instructional materials development center. (Author)

Technological transfer often exacts a definite price, with the developing countries in an obvious situation of dependency. But today it is possible to appraise the economic and social cost of transference. (BL)