{"id":2543,"date":"2012-11-07T09:47:55","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T08:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/?p=2543"},"modified":"2012-11-07T09:47:55","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T08:47:55","slug":"university-finances-could-be-hit-by-fall-in-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/2012\/11\/07\/university-finances-could-be-hit-by-fall-in-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"University finances could be hit by fall in applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Higher Education Funding Council for England (Hefce) has just published a report <em>Financial health of the higher education sector 2011-12 to 2014-15 forecasts<\/em> [1] outlining English universities&#8217; finances.<\/p>\n<p>In the report they highlight risk factors, which include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>fall in student recruitment and retention in an increasingly competitive market<\/li>\n<li>failure to manage student number control<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0further unanticipated public spending cuts<\/li>\n<li>failure to achieve growth in overseas fee income<\/li>\n<li>changes to visa regulations resulting in reduced overseas student demand<\/li>\n<li>failure to comply with UKBA requirements resulting in removal of ability to sponsor non-EU students.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Income predictions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-new.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2012\/11\/university-finances-1.png\" alt=\"finances\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The outcome<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Overall, the finances of English Universities  are predicted to be generally sound, at least up to 2014-15. The report however highlights just how dependent the sector is on student numbers and student retention. And this is at a time of introducing higher fees, generally low levels of graduate employment and a financial crisis.   <\/p>\n<p>Non-EU students pay the highest fees and are a good source of income for universities. In fact they generate about 32% of universities\u2019 fee income, while making up about 11% of the total undergraduate population. I posted about that <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/?p=2331\" title=\"blog\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Reference<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[1] <a title=\"report\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hefce.ac.uk\/pubs\/year\/2012\/201230\/#d.en.75927\" target=\"_blank\">Financial health of the higher education sector 2011-12 to 2014-15 forecasts<\/a>, November 2012 | ref: 2012\/30<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Higher Education Funding Council for England (Hefce) has just published a report Financial health of the higher education sector 2011-12 to 2014-15 forecasts [1] outlining English universities&#8217; finances. In the report they highlight risk factors, which include: fall in student recruitment and retention in an increasingly competitive market failure to manage student number control &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/2012\/11\/07\/university-finances-could-be-hit-by-fall-in-applications\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">University finances could be hit by fall in applications<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}