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Article in FT by Martin Lewis 30 May 2017
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silvercar
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https://www.ft.com/content/16ee17c0-3979-11e7-ac89-b01cc67cfeec
Highlights to parents the government assumptions made on the financial support students will receive from their parents.
Highlights to parents the government assumptions made on the financial support students will receive from their parents.
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I'm not sure if the letters changed, but I am 99% certain my loan offer letter from 2005 states clearly my parents were to make a contribution. I remember this well as my dad and I had a very frank discussion which ended up in me getting my first job! The promise I had from him was that he would "see [me] struggle, but not see [me] starve". He was not, however, going to fund a student lifestyle for an 18 year old!
When I get home from work I'll take a look and see if I still have the original offer letter somewhere and post it...0 -
Martin has been saying this for at least a few months, I heard him speak about it on his 5Live segment some time ago. I guess at some point it's been made a lot less explicit in the information provided to students and parents, so he's trying to get it made more obvious.0
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