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

Education Reform Act 1988 The Education Reform Act 1988 (c. 40) is legislation that introduced multiple changes to the education system in England and Wales, including the introduction of Key Stages and the National Curriculum. It replaced many rules and structures that h ...

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 g ...

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 Engl ...

, the

Higher Education Funding Council for Wales The Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW) was the Welsh Government Sponsored Body responsible for funding the higher education sector. It was replaced by Medr, the Commission for Tertiary Education and Research from August 2024. ...

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

University of London The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in Post-nominal letters, post-nominals) is a collegiate university, federal Public university, public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom. The ...

'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 ex parte 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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