Medr/2026/05: Core higher education teaching funding allocations for Coleg Cambria 2025/26

Introduction

1. This publication informs providers of the core higher education teaching funding allocations for Coleg Cambria for academic year (AY) 2025/26 and is an addendum to the higher education funding allocations published in August 2025 in Medr publication Medr/2025/06: Medr’s funding allocations for academic year 2025/26. Coleg Cambria is eligible for funding from Medr for its higher education provision from AY 2025/26 as it has an approved fee and access plan from AY 2025/26.

Core higher education teaching funding

2. Core higher education teaching funding comprises:

• Part-time undergraduate credit based funding;
• Per capita funding;
• Access and retention premium;
• Disability premium;
• Expensive subjects premium;
• Higher cost subjects premium;
• Welsh medium premium.

More information about these streams of funding can be found in Medr/2025/06.

3. Data collected on the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) student record 2023/24 for Coleg Cambria was used in the allocation calculations. More information about the data extracted and used in the calculations can be found in Medr publication Medr/2024/01: Higher Education Data Requirements 2024/25.

4. Other higher education funding streams that Coleg Cambria may be eligible for will be notified separately.

Allocations for Coleg Cambria AY 2025/26

5. The following table shows the core teaching allocations for Coleg Cambria for AY 2025/26:

Funding stream	Full-time undergraduate funding (£)	Part-time undergraduate funding (£)	Total core teaching funding 2025/26 (£)
Part-time undergraduate credit based funding	0	0	0
Per capita funding	132	5	137
Access and retention premium	0	212	212
Disability premium	0	0	0
Expensive subjects premium	0	0	0
Higher cost subjects premium	16,668	0	16,668
Welsh medium premium	0	0	0
Total	16,800	217	17,017

Payment schedule

6. The payment schedule for core higher education teaching funding for AY 2025/26 is normally to pay 10% of funding to providers in all months of the year other than February and March. Therefore, for Coleg Cambria for AY 2025/26, payments for August 2025 to January 2026 (60% in total) will be paid with the April 2026 payment and a further 10% will be paid in each of April, May, June and July 2026.

Further information

7. Any queries regarding this publication should be directed to Hannah Falvey ([email protected]).