According to the latest submissions to the current review of HE finance, the government is keeping parents in the dark about this. This can be as much as £4,500 a year for parents of students living outside London, and up to almost £5,000 a year for those in the capital. “If you aren’t entitled to a full maintenance loan, parents are expected to make up the gap, but what is outrageous is that the Student Loans Company tells you nothing at all about this,” he says. Ruth Wilkinson, president of Kent University Students Union, says: “I know students who are living hand to mouth. So I wouldn’t lower tuition fees, or bring back maintenance grants, I’d boost maintenance loans.”

Source: The Guardian May 08, 2018 05:50 UTC