Wednesday, 2 May 2012

Why next year's students could be facing a poverty trap

Universities have tried to open access to poorer students by means-testing, but the cliff-edge grants will catch many out



This autumn, many English students will get some form of means-tested support through bursaries or fee reduction depending on their parents' incomes. Each university has designed its own system to soften the rise in fees, which is up to £9,000 in most cases.

Almost all these bursaries of fee reductions involve significant "cliff edges" in support, often with a

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