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The Autumn Statement Widening Participations Winners & Losers Will Cooling University of Leicester, Senior WP Policy and Partnerships Officer www.le.ac.uk wic1@le.ac.uk Whats In A Name . The Big Winner Mature Students


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The Autumn Statement Widening Participation’s Winners & Losers

Will Cooling – University of Leicester, Senior WP Policy and Partnerships Officer

www.le.ac.uk wic1@le.ac.uk

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What’s In A Name

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The Big Winner – Mature Students

  • Age threshold for PGT loans now raised to 60

years old and is available for distance learning

  • Students can now access the maintenance loan

for part-time study.

  • ELQ scrapped for STEM subjects
  • Don’t forget about Nursing though!
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PGT Loans – A Sector Triumph

  • Age Threshold Lower
  • Distance Learning Courses Covered
  • Loans Can Be Used In All UK Institutions
  • Repayment Rate Lowered To 6%
  • PhD Loans System to complement Research

Council Funding

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PGT Loans – Warning From History?

  • Are PGT Loans for EU

Students to next Tuition Fee Loans for New Providers?

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The Big Loser – Post ‘92 Universities

  • High-cost subjects to be protected as HEFCE

Teaching Grant is cut

  • Increased support for part-time study likely to

increase College Higher Education

  • Threat to Nursing Student Recruitment
  • Student Opportunity Funding to be cut in half

– Universities to have less freedom on how to spend it

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End of the Maintenance Grant

  • End of the Maintenance Grant was announced

in the previous budget

  • Contrary to expectations this was included in

the BIS Departmental Cuts

  • Is it right to increase poor students’ graduate

debt to provide more people with support?

– Remember only those who earn to have paid all their loan back under the old system will pay more.

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Danger for the Future

  • The Government took the decision to

freeze the repayment threshold at £21,000

  • This goes against the previous

commitment to let it increase in line with inflation

  • Whatever the merits of this change the

Government has shown a worrying nonchalance about retrospective changes

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  • How meaningful are our

promises to disadvantages students about degree terms and conditions?

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Green Paper

  • Time of change for higher education
  • Merger between OFFA and HEFCE is less

meaningful than it sounds – they already work extremely closely together

  • Key battleground will be protecting the role of

the Director of Fair Access

  • Government shows genuine ambition for

widening participation but the lack of interest in disabled student outreach is deeply concerning

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Questions?