The Universities Funding Council (UFC) was a UK body established under the

Education Reform Act 1988 The Education Reform Act 1988 is widely regarded as the most important single piece of education legislation in England and Wales since the 'Butler' Education Act 1944. Provisions The main provisions of the Education Reform Act are as follows: ...

replacing the University Grants Committee. It distributed funds provided by

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to universities for the provision of education and the undertaking of research. It was wound up by the

Further and Higher Education Act 1992 The Further and Higher Education Act 1992 made changes in the funding and administration of further education and higher education within England and Wales, with consequential effects on associated matters in Scotland which had previously been ...

which replaced its function by the

Higher Education Funding Council for England The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) was a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom, which was responsible for the distribution of funding for higher education to universities and further education colleges in Engla ...

, the

Higher Education Funding Council for Wales The Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW) is the Welsh Government Sponsored Body responsible for funding the higher education sector. Functions HEFCW distributes funds for education, research and related activities at Wales's hi ...

and the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council (now the Scottish Funding Council). The decision of the Universities Funding Council (as it then was), published on the 17th December 1992, to place the

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's Institute of Dental Surgery at level 2 in its assessment of the quality of institutional research, was challenged by

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in the case of R. v. Universities Funding Council

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The Institute of Dental Surgery in 1993.High Court (Administrative Court)
Universities Funding Council ex p. The Institute of Dental Surgery (1993)
EWHC Admin 5 (30 July 1993), accessed 19 June 2022

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