19 April 2017 
Matt Sisson, Projects and Membership Manager
If your institution delivers pre-registration nursing, midwifery, and allied health courses then you’ll be interested in the outcome of a HEFCE-funded report into costings for these programmes. From 2017-18, students starting undergraduate courses in these subjects will be supported through the higher education finance system, with the courses becoming fundable by HEFCE. The council appointed KPMG to analyse course costs using HEI-submitted TRAC data, and the resulting report provides some interesting insight.
Although the report is for English HEIs, the data will be useful for Welsh, Scottish, and NI HEIs as well. As expected, average costs vary significantly by course, from £9,259 for the nursing professions, up to £11,341 for Therapeutic Radiography, with an average for all professions at £9,669. Further analysis into the cost components found that indirect department costs accounted for 55% of the total, with 34% for pay.
