Higher Education: Funding

Lord Sutherland of Houndwood Excerpts

Thursday 8th January 2015 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Williams of Trafford]

My Lords, that is possibly a matter for the devolved Administrations to decide.

[Lord Sutherland of Houndwood (CB)]

My Lords, since the changes in the funding of universities have taken place, one of the problems which has come to the surface is the funding of postgraduate students. That is because undergraduates graduate and leave with a fairly large debt, which makes them unready, unwilling and perhaps unable to fund further postgraduate work. Will the noble Baroness go back to the department and look at how we can deal with this?

[Baroness Williams of Trafford]

My Lords, the noble Lord may be aware that the Chancellor recently announced that, from 2016, postgraduate students will be able to get a loan of up to £10,000 for their studies.