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The SFC does not publish any information on funding per student at higher education institutions (HEIs). The SFC’s teaching funding allocation method distributes funding according to Units of Teaching Resource, reflecting relative costs of delivering different subjects. There is no standard rate of per-student funding.

Indicative information on the number of funded places in HEIs, with per-subject and overall levels of funding can be found in table A2a of the SFC’s Circular SFC/10/2008 (Main grants in support of teaching and research for higher education institutions for academic year 2008-09):

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While this shows the relative allocations to fund undergraduate and postgraduate provision, this is on a full-time equivalent basis and does not demonstrate how funding is allocated within individual institutions to support the range of full-time and part-time provision.

Additionally, the gross funding figures include the tuition fee element of funding which is not paid by SFC. We are unable to disaggregate this on a per student basis as different students pay different fees depending on their domicile.

The SFC does publish performance indicators for colleges, which note colleges’ total income and a breakdown of this income and total expenditure. It also provides the actual Weighted Student Units of Measure (WSUMs) delivered, but not the number of students. WSUMs reflect the relative costs of delivering different subjects

The most recent performance indicators for colleges can be found at:

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SFC does not publish any information on spend per student at higher education institutions (HEIs). The SFC’s teaching funding allocation method distributes funding according to Units of Teaching Resource, reflecting relative costs of delivering different subjects. There is no standard rate of per-student funding.

Indicative information on the number of funded places in HEIs, with per-subject and overall levels of funding can be found in Table A2a of the SFC’s Circular SFC/10/2008 (Main grants in support of teaching and research for higher education institutions for academic year 2008-09):

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For both colleges and HEIs teaching funding is also provided on a full time equivalent (FTE) basis and institutions use this to fund both part-time and full-time provision.

On the basis of “Contracts Let”, the following schemes have also been approved since May 2007:

In September 2007 the Scottish Government announced the Edinburgh to Glasgow improvements project, which includes a number of investment packages with BCRs ranging from 0.9 to 3.8.

In September 2007 the Scottish Government also committed a financial contribution to the Edinburgh trams project, with a BCR of 1.68 (excluding the Edinburgh Airport Rail Link), and awarded the contract for the replacement vessel for the Islay ferry services. This vessel has been commissioned by Caledonian Maritime Assets Ltd (CMAL) and will be funded by loans from the Scottish Government to CMAL. The appraisal, completed in 2003, showed the option being pursued to have a BCR of 0.48.

In December 2007 the decision to construct a Forth replacement crossing was announced to the Parliament. The BCR of the preferred option is 4.57.

In terms of the economic criteria within STAG, the cost-benefit ratio is not the sole indicator of the worth of a scheme. Other factors taken into account include impacts on the environment, safety, integration, accessibility and social inclusion. Also, STAG now enables the wider economic benefits to be taken into consideration.