Call to restore student grants
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Your support makes all the difference.The academic whose report on higher education led to the introduction of tuition fees has urged the Government to allow grants of £2,500 a year for students from the poorest homes.
Writing in The Independent's Education supplement today, Lord Dearing says: "We cannot afford ... a divided society in which the children born to well-heeled parents are destined for university, while for the others there is only a one in four chance of making it."
The Government is to unveil proposals for higher education in a White Paper next month. Ministers are understood to back extending means-tested education allowances – worth up to £30 a week and available to pupils aged 16 to 19 – to university students.
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