You're welcome - and thanks again for all this, it's very useful to have solid numbers here.
Have realised I forgot to do the taxpayer-only cost, the £4700 includes tuition fees: the taxpayer pays £233.7m/78,110 = £3000 per FTE.
(Another caveat: tuition fees at the OU includes fees paid by employers, and the NHS and Social Services Departments are major customers, so some of the 'tuition fees' chunk comes out of the public purse.)
That works out less than your figure for Southampton, which isn't what I thought. It's entirely possible our mix of subjects is different, though, which skews the figures. My impression is that Southampton has above-average STEM enrollment (including a medical school) - we have no medical school and - I would guess - slightly below-average STEM coverage. Also if we have fewer postgrads.
I'll see if I can talk to some of my colleagues who do these sort of sums for a living and dig some stuff out. It's almost certainly in the published literature and/or on our FoI site but I don't have the time to go digging myself.
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Date: 2010-07-19 10:26 am (UTC)Have realised I forgot to do the taxpayer-only cost, the £4700 includes tuition fees: the taxpayer pays £233.7m/78,110 = £3000 per FTE.
(Another caveat: tuition fees at the OU includes fees paid by employers, and the NHS and Social Services Departments are major customers, so some of the 'tuition fees' chunk comes out of the public purse.)
That works out less than your figure for Southampton, which isn't what I thought. It's entirely possible our mix of subjects is different, though, which skews the figures. My impression is that Southampton has above-average STEM enrollment (including a medical school) - we have no medical school and - I would guess - slightly below-average STEM coverage. Also if we have fewer postgrads.
I'll see if I can talk to some of my colleagues who do these sort of sums for a living and dig some stuff out. It's almost certainly in the published literature and/or on our FoI site but I don't have the time to go digging myself.