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MSE News: Welsh students to benefit from 'generous' student finance system
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The average Welsh student could potentially pocket £7,000/year in maintenance grants from September 2018 under new plans...
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'Welsh students to benefit from 'generous' student finance system – grants of at least £1,000/yr to be given to all'
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'Welsh students to benefit from 'generous' student finance system – grants of at least £1,000/yr to be given to all'
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Obviously agree in principle - as grants should never have been abolished imo.
But I'm not sure this has been thought through properly - as there are a lot more people going to university these days than those who would have typically gone a generation ago.
The Welsh Assembly is already funding free prescriptions for everyone and extra costs of printing everything in a second language (ie Welsh) - ie extra bills to those covered by the Government for the country as a whole. If this third extra cost is added in - then I'm not sure whether there will be sufficient money there to fund such a commitment.0 -
MSE_Callum wrote: »The top rate grant and loan support will be £8,100 for a student living away from home outside London and £10,125 for those in the capital.
Meanwhile, those from a household earning above £59,200 will only receive the universal £1,000/year maintenance grant.
Someone earning £59k takes home less than £42k (if they're lucky), but might be expected to make up the shortfall of up to £9k in lost grant/loan out of this?!
Am I missing something? Because that seems barmy, especially under the magnifying glass of the current Martin Lewis crusade about making parental contributions to university grants/loans more transparent!0
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