Mr. Tom Boland:

It is done on the basis of a funding model. The allocation is done on the basis of a combination of the number of students and the disciplines they are studying, with different disciplines weighted according to what the estimated cost of the course would be. A programme that does not involve a laboratory would get a weighting of one, and then there are varying gradations up to the maximum weighting, which I think is four and would apply to a course like medicine. It is done on a purely formulaic basis.