Maintenance grants to return for some students
Training Secretary Bridget Phillipson said that care grants will return to some university students in the UK until 2029.
The grants will be valid for tens of thousands of students from low -income households that examine priority courses that support the industrial strategy and priority courses that support the workers’ government renewing the UK.
It is not clear which courses of the government can take a grant, the government says more details will be given. Autumn Budget of November.
The maintenance grants were removed by former Chancellor George Osborne, who said that they had become a “unsuitable” cost to the taxpayer 10 years ago.
At that time, students from families with an annual income of £ 25,000 or less can get full grants of £ 3387 per year.
More than half a million students in the UK were granting £ 1.57 billion a year before being removed.
The government said grants will be financed by a new tax on international student fees that will only be valid for institutions in the UK.
Speaking at the Labor Party Conference in Liverpool in the afternoon on Monday, Phillipson said the government’s universities put back in the “service of the working class youth”.
“Learning or training should be spent on the time of the conference, college or university every hour of God sent by God.” He said.
The government said that care grants will be available for university degrees, other higher education courses and technical qualifications.
The government has not yet said how much money the students could receive at the grade, but – like maintenance loans that students in the UK can still receive – the average amount of testing will be tested, that is, how much a student’s family gained.
One Increasing number of students As it continues to increase between the increasing cost of living and the money obtained from maintenance loans, it has to do part -time work to finance her time at the university.
Recent research from the Institute of Higher Education Policy (HEPI) shows that students in the UK need a “socially acceptable minimum standard of living standard from a three -year degree to £ 61,000.
Thinking tank found the maximum annual maintenance loan caps “only half of the costs faced by refreshing”.
And a recent Save The Student questionnaire suggested that maintenance loans fell on an average of 502 £ £ 502.
Tom Allingham, a student money expert in Save The Student, welcomed the announcement, but the government said that not only in “priority courses”, but to make all the students “more”.
“Change a part of the loan with a grant will not make any difference in the intense financial struggles faced by the students, and the number one they are now needed is more money in their pockets.” He said.
He said: “We expect more details about the new financing and hopefully we hope that the students will listen to the needs of the government’s plans.”
Maximum maintenance loan students from the UK can take if they live away from their parents outside London.
Students who are educated away from Wales can borrow up to £ 11,345, and some GALLİ students have the right to receive maintenance grants.
In Scotland, the maximum annual maintenance loan is £ 9,400 for under the age of 25, and there are a number of scholarships and grants that students can apply for.
