The extra support is being made available to university students in Scotland and is called the "Special Support Loan" - it will be available on top of the standard maintenance loan and grant which is currently £7,000 and £2,000
Anyone surprised to find British universities have been busy stuffing their lecture halls with foreign students clearly hasn’t been paying attention to the slow-motion car crash in education funding. The crisis provides a perfect example of obfuscation, misdirection, and how short-term fiscal gains can often create long-term problems.
Tax and student finance experts have called on the Government to address this "weird" loophole as the system already creates "higher taxes" for students
Jasmine Dinis has been teaching her daughter to be a traditional housewife as she grows up, rather than going to university and getting her own job - and now faces a significant backlash…