31st January deadlines to be aware of:
- English institutions that are exempt charities should update their charity information gateway pages.
- Latest date for institutions to submit Transparent Approach to Costing (TRAC) return.
Delays to the annual grant letter may be down to government plans to announce an easing of the AAB rules that are to introduce competition for students between institutions, the Times Higher reports. A number of university groups have called for the government to reduce the threshold, and it has since been suggested that the government, which has indicated a desire to extend the policy in future years, is planning to lower the grade limit to ABB in 2013-14.
HEFCE published a letter on the 13th January announcing an adjustment to the RCIF2 payment profile with funding being brought forward from 2012-13 to 2011-12. This adjustment is in line with the government’s plans to stimulate economic growth, and as such £76 million will be handed out in January 2012 to those universities and colleges that have met the requirements of the second Capital Investment Framework.
And finally, you may be aware of the HEFCE commissioned work to help the sector measure scope 3 carbon emissions. The work was commissioned under 3 themes: Procurement (supply chain), Transport and Water & Waste. The output from this work can be found here.
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