Archive of previous annual guidance

How to complete your 2013-14 monitoring return: access agreements, Student Opportunity allocation and the NSP

This document sets out the information that OFFA and the Higher Education Funding Council for England need from institutions for the monitoring of access agreements, Student Opportunity allocation and end-of-year monitoring of the National Scholarship Programme (NSP) for 2013-14

Download Sample 2013-14 access agreement/Student Opportunity allocation monitoring tables as PDF

Download Sample NSP end of year 2013-14 tables as PDF

How to produce an access agreement for 2015-16
Guidance for universities and colleges that wish to charge above the basic tuition fee in 2015-16.
Download sample PDF of resource plan (financial template)

How to complete your 2012-13 monitoring return: access agreements, interim widening participation strategic statements and the National Scholarship Programme
Sets out the information we and HEFCE need for our monitoring of access agreements, interim widening participation strategic statements (IWPSSs) and the National Scholarship Programme (NSP) for 2012-13.
Download sample monitoring tables (example of monitoring return in PDF form, for reference only)

How to produce an access agreement for 2014-15
Guidance for universities and colleges that wish to charge above the basic tuition fee in 2014-15.
Download sample PDF of Annex B (financial template)

How to complete your monitoring return: access agreements and WPSAs 2011-12, and NSP 2012-13 (in-year)
Sets out the information we and HEFCE need from institutions for our annual monitoring of access agreements and widening participation strategic assessments (WPSAs) for 2011-12, and for in-year monitoring of the National Scholarship Programme (NSP) for 2012-13.

Monitoring return guidance for SCITTs
How to complete your access agreement monitoring return for 2009-10, 2010-11 and 2011-12.

How SCITTs should produce an access agreement for 2013-14
Guidance for school centred initial teacher training providers (SCITTs) and other non-HEI providers of initial teacher training.
Download Annex C Word template

How to produce an access agreement for 2013-14
Guidance for universities and colleges that wish to charge above the basic level of tuition fees in 2013-14 for full-time and part-time courses, and in 2012-13 for part-time courses.
Q&A for institutions on drawing up 2013-14 access agreements
Download Annexes B and C
Download sample PDF of Annexes B and C

How to include ITT students in your 2012-13 access agreement
This document gives guidance to HEIs and FECs on how to include initial teacher training (ITT) students in 2012-13 access agreements.
Download Annex A

How SCITTS should produce an access agreement for 2012-13
Guidance for SCITTs and other non-HEI ITT providers who wish to charge fees of more than £6,000 in 2012-13.
Annex A – do you intend to submit an access agreement for 2012-13?
Download Annex E
Download Annex F

Access agreements and widening participation strategic assessments: How to complete your monitoring return for 2010-11
Sets out the information we and HEFCE need from institutions for our monitoring of 2010-11 access agreements and widening participation strategic assessments (WPSAs).

October 2011

OFFA 2011/05 (HEFCE 2011/32)

Access agreement and widening participation strategic assessment monitoring: Outcomes for 2009-10
This is a joint OFFA/HEFCE monitoring report. It gives the results of OFFA’s monitoring of access agreements in 2009-10 and also the results of HEFCE’s monitoring against widening participation strategic assessments (WPSAs).
Excel spreadsheet giving data for annexes A-C
View press release

September 2011

OFFA 2011/04 (HEFCE 2011/29)

Access agreement data tables for 2012-13 (July 2011)
Please note this data has been superseded by OFFA publication 2012/06.Tables showing estimated expenditure on access measures and fee levels (by sector, mission group and institution) for 2012-13 access agreements.
Download data tables as Excel spreadsheet
View press release

July 2011

2011/03

How to produce access agreements for 2012-13
Guidance to institutions who wish to charge fees of more than £6,000 in 2012-13
Download Annex A
Download Annex B

March 2011

2011/01

Bursary leaflet for HE advisors in schools and colleges (2011-12)
Contains the key information you will need to advise your students about bursaries for 2011-12.
Text-only version of above leaflet
Student-facing presentation on bursaries
Student-facing powerpoint presentation on bursaries

November 2010

2010/08

Access agreements and widening participation strategic assessments: How to complete your monitoring return for 2009-10
Sets out the information we need from institutions for our monitoring of access agreements and WPSAs in 2009-10.

September 2010

OFFA 2010/07 (HEFCE 2010/29)

What more can be done to widen access to highly selective universities?
Report by Sir Martin Harris on access to highly selective universities.
View press release
Download Annex C, ‘Trends in young participation by selectivity of institution’, separately

May 2010

2010/03

Bursary leaflet for HE advisers in schools and colleges
Contains the key information you will need to advise your students about bursaries for 2010-11.
Text only version

April 2010

2010/02

Good practice guide: How to increase awareness, knowledge and take-up of bursaries and scholarships
This good practice guide for universities and colleges offers practical advice and tips on how they can increase awareness, knowledge and take-up of bursaries and scholarships. It is based on national research undertaken by Professor Claire Callender, Birkbeck, University of London and the National Institute of Economic and Social Research.

December 2009

2009/06

Access agreement monitoring 2008-09 (SCITTs)
Guidance for School Centred Initial Teacher Training providers on how to complete their access agreement monitoring return for 2008-09.

October 2009

2009/05

Access agreement monitoring 2008-09 (FECs)
Guidance for further education colleges on how to complete their access agreement monitoring return for 2008-09.

October 2009

2009/04

Access agreement monitoring 2008-09 (HEIs)
Guidance for higher education institutions on how to complete their access agreement monitoring return for 2008-09.

October 2009

2009/03

Access agreement monitoring: Outcomes for 2007-08
Our second monitoring report, giving the results of our monitoring of access agreements in 2007-08.
View press release

March 2009

2009/02

Request for widening participation strategic assessments (re-directs to HEFCE website)
This HEFCE (Higher Education Funding Council for England) publication gives guidance to institutions on what to include in their new widening participation strategic assessments.

January 2009

HEFCE 2009/01

Access agreement monitoring 2007-08 (FECs and SCITTs)
Sets out the information we need from further education colleges and school-centred initial teacher training providers for our monitoring of access agreements in 2007-08.

July 2008

2008/04

Access agreement monitoring 2007-08 (HEIs)
Sets out the information we need from higher education institutions for our monitoring of access agreements in 2007-08.

July 2008

2008/03

Access agreement monitoring: Outcomes for 2006-07
Our first monitoring report, giving the results of our monitoring of access agreements in 2006-07.
View press release

January 2008

2008/01

Access agreement monitoring 2006-07
Sets out the information we need from institutions for our monitoring of access agreements in 2006-07.

March 2007

2007/01

Producing access agreements: OFFA guidance to School Centred Initial Teacher Training (SCITTs) providers
Guidance for SCITTs on how to produce an access agreement.

October 2005

2005/02

Producing access agreements: OFFA guidance to institutions
Our guidance to institutions setting out the information they need to include in access agreements.

November 2004

2004/01