…what universities should prioritise in a post-pandemic world. Here are the top 5 priorities: Proper funding of maintenance grants for disadvantaged students. Access and funding for postgraduate studies for disadvantaged…
Academy Advancement?
…delivering excellent outcomes for their pupils, substantially outstripping the averages above, there continue to be many chains who perform very poorly. When ranked on a composite index combining multiple performance…
Unfair Deal quoted in debate on replacement of student maintenance grants with loans
…from the poorest backgrounds adding that, because financial support is unevenly distributed among universities, students from the poorest backgrounds will now face a “postcode lottery when it comes to determining…
Summer Budget: Student loans replace maintenance grants
Writing for the Financial Times, Helen Warrell included a quote by the Sutton Trust in an article on Budget 2015. Maintenance grants for poorer students are to be scrapped and…
Budget 2015: Student maintenance grants scrapped
The BBC included a quote by the Sutton Trust in their coverage on Budget 2015. University maintenance grants for lower income students in England and Wales are to be scrapped…
Sutton Trust response to maintenance grants cuts set out in today’s Budget
Commenting on the plans to cut maintenance grants outlined in today’s Budget, Sir Peter Lampl, Chairman of the Sutton Trust and of the Education Endowment Foundation, said: “Shifting grants to…