How much money do universities and colleges spend on bursaries and other access measures under their access agreements?
In 2008-09 (the most recent year for which we have monitoring data), universities and colleges spent £304.5 million on bursaries and scholarships for lower income students and other represented groups. Nearly three-quarters of this money (74 per cent) went to the poorest students i.e. students whose parents earn less than £25,000 between them. In the same year, universities and colleges spent £36.7 million on additional outreach such as summer schools, mentoring and visits to schools and colleges in disadvantaged areas. In total, universities spent just over a quarter (25.8 per cent) of their ‘additional’ fee income on access measures. You can find detailed information about access agreement expenditure in our monitoring outcome reports, available from our publications page.
