OfS teaching grant allocation cut for second consecutive year

Gavin Williamson sets out priorities for regulator and confirms grant reduction

Education secretary Gavin Williamson has written to the Office for Students to confirm a cut in its teaching grant allocation next year, and to re-state the areas on which he wants England’s regulator to focus.

In a letter dated 1 January, published by the Office for Students on 9 January, Williamson says that the OfS will receive £1.48 billion in teaching grant money in 2020-21, down by 0.5 per cent from £1.49 billion last year. The allocation was £1.54 billion in 2018-19.