Give worse-off students £3,000 to stay in education, says report

In turnaround from Cameron’s scrapped maintenance grants, May says move ‘has not worked’

Disadvantaged students in England could receive grants worth £3,000 a year to encourage them to remain in education after leaving school, according to proposals from a government-commissioned report backed by Theresa May.

The report into post-age 16 education and funding would, if accepted by a future government, see a shift in funding from universities to further education (FE) and vocational training. Universities would lose income for “low value” courses while their graduates would be making higher student loan repayments until the brink of their retirement.

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from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2QyereL

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