Capital funding & projects
SFC’s annual capital funding to colleges exceeds £90 million and the current capital programme has a total capital value of approximately £750 million. Capital funding to universities each year from SFC is approximately £100 million towards implementation of their estate strategies. Universities also have an estimated capital investment backlog of £1.5 billion.
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Capital funding
College Capital Investment Projects - over the last six years SFC has funded several new build, refurbishment and relocation capital projects to support Scotland's colleges to develop their buildings and equipment for teaching, learning and research. View more information about the College capital projects here.
SFC/10/2009 - Revised formula capital funding for colleges 2008-11
SFC/11/2009 - Revised formula capital funding for higher education institutions 2008-11
Collaboration
Collaborating in space use at Crichton campus - a report by Critical Thinking
Design
'Explore It' website & toolkit - The website provides tools which will encourage open but structured dialogue between all stakeholders and users involved in the process of designing and planning work environments within learning institutions.
Spaces for learning - a review of learning spaces in further and higher education.
Sustainable capital
In 2006 the four UK HE funding bodies commissioned JM Consulting to conduct a full update to their 2001 report assessing the likely future capital funding needs of the UK's higher education sector.
2006 report - Future needs for capital grant funding in higher education - July 2006
Disposal & acquisition
The Management Statement between the Scottish Government and SFC highlights the obligation on the SFC to ensure it recovers an appropriate proportion of the value of an exchequer-funded asset, when it is disposed of by a college or university.
In practice, the SFC will always seek to act reasonably, and will take into account a college or university's:
- estates strategy;
- sources of funds available;
- affordability; and
- financial security.
Where there is clear evidence of need, then the proportion we actually recover may be very small or nil.
Procedure notes for the disposal of exchequer funded assets and the retention of proceeds (applies to higher education institutions only).
Disposals - colleges FE/48/2000
Procedure notes for the disposal of exchequer-funded assets: FE/48/2000 available on the
SFC archive (applies to colleges only).
Estate statistics
Guidance for capital funding & projects
Guidance for capital funding & projects
Seminar information
Space management
Space management
Guidance on the effective management of space for Scotland's colleges