The Funding of Higher Education in England

Abstract

This chapter will explore the funding of Higher Education in English universities. This deliberately excludes activities and universities in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, because the devolution of political powers to these countries over the past decade has led to significant differences of approaches to higher education funding. Aggregating at the UK level is therefore not particularly helpful. There is also a limited amount of higher education provided and funded outside of the universities, in further education colleges, but again this in not included in this analysis.