Mr. Rob Wilson:
To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills what research he plans to undertake on the scale and scope of higher education delivered by further education colleges; and if he will make a statement. [233712]
Mr. Lammy:
Data on the scale and scope of higher education delivered by further education colleges are collected annually. There has always been considerable diversity between further education colleges as regards the delivery of higher education. The best offer a distinctive form of excellence when they offer high quality convenient access to higher education for potential students who might not otherwise participate in higher education. Some colleges already do this; some are capable of becoming excellent; but some may decide that their strengths lie outside the delivery of higher education. We want to foster a sustainable system in which institutions take informed decisions about what they should and should not attempt to deliver in the light of the challenges we have identified through the debate we have launched on the long-term future of higher education.
Higher Education: Business
Mr. Jim Cunningham:
To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills what steps the Government have taken to strengthen the links between higher education institutions and the economy in their local areas. [234074]
Mr. Lammy:
The Government are supporting HEFCE’s development of a programme of activities that will help Higher Education Institution’s (HEIs) meet the high level skills needs of the economy, with a focus on enhancing the role of HE institutions in work force 11 Nov 2008 : Column 1099W
development. In particular, the 2008 HEFCE Grant letter allocated over £100 million of new resources over the spending review period to support new co-funded entrants, infrastructure development and wider employer engagement activity within HEIs. This will help HEIs make real progress in responding to the skills needs of employers and their staff and form a sustainable knowledge economy in which higher learning informs and improves economic performance.
The Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF) gives every English HEI funding to build its capacity to work with business. This fund will reach £150 million per annum by the end of the spending review period. In their HEIF strategies, 83 per cent. of institutions said that small and medium enterprises were a target, and 85 per cent. were targeting knowledge exchange activity within the region.
During 2008-11 the Technology Strategy Board will co-ordinate a £1 billion programme in partnership with Research Councils and the Regional Development Agencies with a key aim of helping businesses to access the research base. In addition, RDAs will provide Innovation Vouchers to at least 500 businesses as a means for smaller firms to collaborate with knowledge institutions to help those firms boost their innovation.
Higher Education: Finance
Mr. Rob Wilson:
To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills what the block grant to each of the higher education institutions was for research in 2007-08. [233711]
Mr. Lammy:
Within England, the research block grant for higher education institutions is allocated and distributed by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE).
The following table sets out HEFCE research funding in 2007-08. The data are available in HEFCE publication 2007/32 ‘Recurrent grants for 2007:08—Final Allocations’.
£ million
HEFCE r esearch funding for 2007-08
Universities
Anglia Ruskin University
0.7
Aston University
7.0
University of Bath
18.1
Bath Spa University
0.4
University of Bedfordshire
0.5
Birkbeck College
9.8
University of Birmingham
43.0
Birmingham City University
0.9
University of Bolton
0.3
Bournemouth University
0.8
University of Bradford
6.9
University of Brighton
4.9
University of Bristol
43.2
Brunei University
8.6
Buckinghamshire New University
0.7
University of Cambridge
107.1
Canterbury Christ Church University
0.1
University of Central Lancashire
1.5
University of Chester
0.3
University of Chichester
0.3
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City University, London
6.5
Coventry University
1.1
University of Cumbria
0.3
De Montfort University
4.6
University of Derby
0.3
University of Durham
23.7
University of East Anglia
16.0
University of East London
1.6
Edge Hill University
0.0
University of Essex
11.0
University of Exeter
14.2
University of Gloucestershire
0.9
Goldsmiths College, University of London
8.5
University of Greenwich
1.7
University of Hertfordshire
2.9
University of Huddersfield
1.6
University of Hull
6.4
Imperial College London
91.8
Keele University
6.8
University of Kent
8.0
King's College London
58.4
Kingston University
1.3
Lancaster University
17.8
University of Leeds
47.2
Leeds Metropolitan University
1.1
University of Leicester
18.4
University of Lincoln
0.3
University of Liverpool
30.2
Liverpool Hope University
0.1
Liverpool John Moores University
3.1
London Metropolitan University
0.8
London South Bank University
1.5
Loughborough University
15.6
University of Manchester
77.0
Manchester Metropolitan University
3.6
Middlesex University
2.0
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
32.9
University of Northampton
0.4
University of Northumbria at Newcastle
1.4
University of Nottingham
39.7
Nottingham Trent University
2.9
Open University
7.9
University of Oxford
104.2
Oxford Brookes University
2.7
University of Plymouth
3.8
University of Portsmouth
4.5
Queen Mary, University of London
24.2
University of Reading
22.8
Roehampton University
1.2
Royal Holloway, University of London
14.3
University of Salford
8.6
University of Sheffield
43.9
Sheffield Hallam University
3.9
University of Southampton
46.5
Southampton Solent University
0.1
Staffordshire University
0.8
University of Sunderland
1.1
University of Surrey
18.0
University of Sussex
17.9
University of Teesside
0.5
Thames Valley University
0.1
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University College London
101.3
University of Warwick
30.6
University of the West of England, Bristol
2.7
University of Westminster
2.2
University of Winchester
0.5
University of Wolverhampton
0.7
University of Worcester
0.1
University of York
23.4
York St John University
0.1
Specialist institutions and general colleges
Birmingham College of Food, Tourism and Creative Studies
0.0
Bishop Grosseteste University College, Lincoln
0.0
Arts Institute at Bournemouth
0.0
Institute of Cancer Research
16.2
Central School of Speech and Drama
0.0
Courtauld Institute of Art
1.3
Cranfield University
9.6
University College for the Creative Arts at Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham, Maidstone, Rochester
