National Higher Education Funding Institutional Research Foundations 26

National Higher Education Funding Institutional Research - Foundations 26 September 2019 Rajan Naicker

Overview GOVERNMENT STEERING OF THE PUBLIC HE SYSTEM QUALITY Institutional quality audits PLANNING Institutional missions, operating plans, and academic profiles Accreditation of academic programmes Student & staff equity plans Student enrolment plans FUNDING Institutional data & data analyses New funding framework Institutional inputs & outputs for funding Government funds Allocated to HE institutions

Aspects of the Funding Framework Ministry of Education determines for funding purposes Student enrolment plans individual institutions interacts with Individual higher education institutions individual approvals aggregated into Overall student enrolment plan for the public higher education system

Integration of Planning and Funding National Treasury Proposed 3 -year rolling higher education budgets gives provisional allocation to gives final approval to Higher Education budget for next financial year submits Higher education for two further MTEF years Ministry of Education Interacts with Individual higher education institutions Approved student Enrolment plans Ministry uses approved enrolment plans, in context of quantum of national HE budget to determine Allocations to individual higher education institutions

MTEF Allocation

Division of Block Grant between Grant Categories 2019 National budget for higher education institutions 100% [R 66 382 m] Block grant Earmarked grant Grants to Institutions Sector Oversight 52. 24% [R 34 679 m] 11. 48% [R 7 620 m] 36. 25% [R 24 066 m] 0. 02% [R 16 m] • • • Teaching Input Teaching Output Research Output Institutional Factors Gap Grant Phase Out • • • Infrastructure & Output Efficiencies Capital Funds for 2 new universities (SPU & UMP) Operational Funds for 2 new universities HSc Operational SMU Gap Grant Phased Out Foundation Provision University Capacity Development Clinical Training of Health Professionals HDI Development Grant Veterinary Sciences Interest & Redemption on Loans • • • NSFAS Institute for Human and Social Sciences African Institute for Math Science • Sector Monitoring and Evaluation

Division of Block Grant between Grant Categories (2019) Block grant 100% [R 34 679 m] Teaching output grant 16. 9% [R 5 865 m] Teaching Input grant 59. 8% [R 20 743 m] generated by Level G r o u p 1 1 2 3 4 Non-research graduates & diplomates Research output grant 12. 9% [R 4 461 m] generated by Research masters & doctorates & publications Institutional factor grant 5. 3% [R 1 827 m] generated by (a) Enrolment size (b) Disadvantaged students

Teaching Input (TI) Grants Based on approved FTE student places as determined in the Programme and Qualification Mix (PQM) process: (a) Four funding groups (b) Four study levels (c) Weighted according to funding group and study level

Four Funding Groups

Weightings according to Funding Group and Study Level Contact Students and Distance Students

Ministerial Approved TI Units

Teaching Output Grant Non-research output measured by non-research graduates and diplomates and weighted

Research Output Grant

Grant Rand Values

Example Assumption : Student registers for all subjects per level of study and the student pass all the subjects.

Planning

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