Mentions:
1: None stay in those communities or want to be able to return to them after they have gone away for their education - Speech Link
2: None more delivery and a lot more efficiencies for all the sectors, whether we are talking about health, education - Speech Link
3: None They have finance, but they need relaxations in relation to tenure. - Speech Link
4: Coffey, Willie (SNP - Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley) I invite our witnesses to comment further on those differences and their impacts.Lastly, what more can - Speech Link
5: None Therefore, it would be good if that additional money could be used to support further development. - Speech Link
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Asked by: Navendu Mishra (Labour - Stockport)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the impact of increases in the cost of living on the accessibility of higher education for students in Greater Manchester.
Answered by Luke Hall - Minister of State (Education)
The government publishes an Equality Impact Assessment (EIA) is each year to analyse the impact of changes to higher education (HE) student support in England on students with protected characteristics and those from low-income families. The EIA for the 2024/25 academic year was published on GOV.UK on 26 January 2024 and is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/higher-education-student-finance-2024-to-2025-equality-analysis.
The department has continued to increase maximum loans and grants for living and other costs for undergraduate and postgraduate students each year with a 2.8% increase for the current academic year, 2023/24, and a further 2.5% increase announced for 2024/25.
In addition, the department has frozen maximum tuition fees for the 2023/24 and 2024/25 academic years. By 2024/25, maximum fees will have been frozen for seven successive years. The department believes that the current fee freeze achieves the best balance between ensuring that the system remains financially sustainable, offering good value for the taxpayer, and reducing debt levels for students in real terms.
The government understands the pressures people have been facing with the cost of living and has taken action to help. The department has already made £276 million of student premium and mental health funding available for the 2023/24 academic year to support successful outcomes for students including disadvantaged students.
The department has also made a further £10 million of one-off support available to support student mental health and hardship funding for 2023/24. This funding will complement the help universities are providing through their own bursary, scholarship and hardship support schemes. For this financial year, 2024/25, the department has increased the Student Premium (full-time, part-time, and disabled premium) by £5 million to reflect high demand for hardship support. Further details of this allocation for the academic year 2024/25 will be announced by the Office for Students (OfS) in the summer.
Overall, support to households to help with the high cost of living is worth £108 billion over 2022/23 to 2024/25, an average of £3,800 per UK household. The government believes this will have eased the pressure on family budgets and so will in turn enable many families to provide additional support to their children in HE to help them meet increased living costs.
English domiciled 18 year olds from the most disadvantaged areas are now 74% more likely to enter HE than they were in 2010, and the department is working to close the disadvantage gap with our access and participation reforms.
The department has tasked the OfS to include support for disadvantaged students before entry to HE in new access and participation plans. Providers should be working meaningfully with schools to ensure that pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds are encouraged and supported to achieve the highest possible grades and follow the path that is best for them, whether that be an apprenticeship or higher technical qualification, or a course at another university.
Oral Evidence Apr. 29 2024
Inquiry: Statutory InquiriesFound: like to go back to something that we rather pestered Mr Hughes with last week, which is to inquire further
Oral Evidence Apr. 29 2024
Inquiry: Statutory InquiriesFound: like to go back to something that we rather pestered Mr Hughes with last week, which is to inquire further
Found: Bank reported that 8% of account holders said that they had proceeded with a paymen t and not made further
Apr. 29 2024
Source Page: I. Universal Credit Programme Board Papers from November and December 2021 and January, February, March and April 2022 [redacted] (58 docs). II. Letter dated 15/04/2024 from Jo Churchill MP to the Deposited Papers Clerk regarding documents for deposit in the House libraries. 3p.Found: Themes are: Health and Disability, Research, Finance and Welfare, Poverty and Children (monthly) 7)
Mentions:
1: Earl of Effingham (Con - Excepted Hereditary) that fuels the future—all within school budgets”.We can go much further. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) As the head of an education trust in east Yorkshire, Jonny Uttley of the Education Alliance, reported - Speech Link
3: Lord Shipley (LD - Life peer) The noble Earl, Lord Effingham, for example, said a number of things about school, diet and finance that - Speech Link
Apr. 29 2024
Source Page: Rwanda: country policy and information notesFound: No further details were provided about the nature of the complaints.