The Further Education Funding Council published its funding allocations for 1996/97 this week. These confirm the provisional allocations which were published in The THES in May. In all, Pounds 3,045.9 million has been allocated to colleges, of which about Pounds 110.3 million is expected to be used for capital purposes. This is an increase of 1.6 per cent in funding to secure a 4.7 per cent increase in student numbers.