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Higher Education and Research Act 2017
UK Parliament
Supports the territorial scope of the Office for Students as the regulator for English higher education providers, not a UK-wide regulator.
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Part I closing essay
The System Nobody Designed
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Benefits of registration
Office for Students
Supports the description of registration as the gateway to student-support funding, direct grants in the relevant category, applications for a student sponsor licence, degree-awarding powers and university title.
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University title
Office for Students
Supports the distinction between protected university title and degree-awarding powers, and the different historic and modern routes to university title.
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Higher Education Provider Data: Finance 2023/24
Higher Education Statistics Agency, part of Jisc. 8 May 2025
Supports the claim that tuition fees are the largest income source across the UK higher education sector. The detailed percentages have been removed from the manuscript because later financial chapters analyse them directly.
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Find out what costs are eligible for UKRI funding
UK Research and Innovation
Supports the point that a research grant does not carry the same margin as unrestricted fee income: UK research councils usually fund 80 per cent of a project's full economic cost.
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Full-time Tuition Fee Loan: How it's paid
Student Loans Company
Supports the mechanism by which tuition-fee loans are paid directly to providers rather than passing through students' bank accounts.
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Higher education finances and funding in England
House of Commons Library
Supports the account of the mixed funding model, loan-backed fee income, direct grants and the distinction between cash received by providers and the eventual public cost of student lending.
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Financial sustainability of higher education providers in England 2026
Office for Students. May 2026
Supports the discussion of recruitment risk, slow-moving costs and the danger of using sector averages to infer the position of individual providers.
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Medr
Commission for Tertiary Education and Research
Supports Medr's responsibility since 1 August 2024 for funding and regulating higher education and research, further education, apprenticeships, adult community learning and maintained school sixth forms in Wales.
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Medr's regulatory framework for tertiary providers
Medr. 1 April 2026
Supports the August 2026 launch of the higher education register and first tranche of registration and funding conditions. The remaining registration requirements are due to take effect in August 2027.
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Rates of undergraduate student support for academic year 2026 to 2027
Welsh Government. 7 January 2026
Supports the maximum £9,790 fee loan for eligible Welsh students at ordinary providers in Wales or England.
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Scotland's Tertiary Quality Enhancement Framework
Scottish Funding Council
Supports the Scottish funding council's quality-assurance and enhancement model for colleges and universities.
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University Final Funding Allocations AY 2026-27
Scottish Funding Council. 2026
Supports the £1,820 assumed tuition fee for full-time first-degree Scottish-domiciled home students in 2026/27 and the role of direct public funding.
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Student Finance and Wellbeing Study Scotland 2023/24
, Appendix A. Scottish Government. 11 December 2024
Supports the mechanism by which the Student Awards Agency Scotland pays the standard degree fee for eligible students.
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Higher education
Department for the Economy, Northern Ireland
Supports the statement that Northern Ireland has no higher education funding council and that the Department fulfils the roles of both government department and funding council while universities remain autonomous.
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Student Finance NI application for academic year 2026/27
Student Finance Northern Ireland. 2026
Supports the maximum £4,985 tuition-fee loan for eligible Northern Ireland students studying at a publicly funded provider in Northern Ireland in 2026/27.
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