http://www.theguardian.com/education...scrapped-loansGeorge Osborne has delivered a tough budget for young people, warning them they must either “earn or learn”, and scrapping maintenance grants that support students from the poorest backgrounds through university.In a budget speech stressed that those who can work must work, Osborne warned young people aged 18 to 21 there would be no automatic entitlement to housing benefit, with exceptions only for the most vulnerable.
In addition,the new national living wage, which is being introduced next year at £7.20, rising to £9 by 2020, will apply only to over-25s, which will be seen as further penalising young people.
Did he just think 'ah yes, what would make it even more harder for students from a deprived socioeconomic background to go to university other than increasing tuition fees? I know! How about changing the maintenance grant to a loan so that they'll be in even more debt! And while we're at it, let's just raise the living wage for 25+ cause **** those just coming out of uni, they don't need money'
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