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Directorates
Access, Learning and Outcomes
“The Access, Learning and Outcomes directorate works to ensure priorities around access, skills, and academic quality. SFC’s Outcomes Framework sets out SFC’s expectations of colleges and universities in return for the funding that they receive.
The access team within the directorate takes a national lead on fair access to further and higher education. Its work includes include initiatives designed to support learners from deprived areas, care-experienced students, ex-service personnel, and learners with disabilities.
Finance
The Finance directorate is responsible for leading SFC’s work on the allocation and distribution of funding to colleges and universities. It provides colleges with FE student support funding in the form of bursaries and allowances. In both the college and university sectors the directorate has responsibility for capital infrastructure funding and net zero. The directorate also assesses the financial health of colleges and universities.
Corporate Services Directorate
The Corporate Services directorate enhances SFC’s analytical capabilities, briefings, and operational policy development capacity across areas of interest for the whole organisation. The directorate undertakes the collection and analysis of data from colleges and universities and the publication of SFC’s annual programme of statistical publications.
The directorate also covers Human Resources and Transformation, and Corporate Governance which encompasses corporate performance, risk management, information governance and secretariat functions for the Board.
The directorate also covers Human Resources and Transformation, and Corporate Governance which encompasses corporate performance, risk management, information governance and secretariat functions for the Board.
Research and Innovation
The directorate’s work supports SFC’s research funding to universities. It is also responsible for SFC’s work in innovation where its investments create partnerships between academics and businesses. The directorate works closely with UK Research and Innovation, the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and other UK funding councils.