page_title: Edinburgh College
section_title: Funding
hierarchical_section_title: Edinburgh College / Funding
caption_attribution_description: English: Edinburgh College, (Milton Road Campus)
context_page_description: Edinburgh College is a further and higher education institution with campuses in Edinburgh and Midlothian, Scotland. It serves the Fife, Lothians, and Scottish Borders regions, and is the largest college in Scotland. It was formed on 1 October 2012 as part of the merger of Edinburgh's Jewel and Esk, Telford, and Stevenson colleges. The college has four campuses, all of which were previously the campuses of the constituents of the merger: Jewel and Esk's College Milton Road Campus and Eskbank Campus; Edinburgh Telford College; and Stevenson College Edinburgh
context_section_description: Edinburgh College is a primarily publicly funded college. Of the college's £91 million income for the period 2014/15, £68.35 million (75.1%) came from Scottish Funding Council (SFC) grants, £14.52 million came from tuition fees, and the remainder came from a mixture of contracts, endowments, and national and EU grants.
  In 2010, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reclassified, effective 1 April 2014, Colleges of Further Education in Scotland as central government entities, making them public bodies. This change meant that the SFC could claw back funds and, as a result, that colleges would be unable to hold large cash reserves. Following a Holyrood report placing Edinburgh College behind the City of Glasgow College in reforms, college principal Annette Bruton expressed discontent with this consequence of reclassification.
  I think about £2.5m was asked for [from the SFC] and the college was able to get £300,000. […] without being able to hold reserves it's difficult to see how the college can make that investment when they needed to for transformational change.
  — Annette Bruton, Principal (Edinburgh College)
  Edinburgh College is responsible for the funding of its students' association, ECSA. In 2014, the college's Board of Management provided ECSA with funds of £274,677.
caption: The college's Milton Road Campus in east Edinburgh
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