What will happen when the education committee meets the future chair of the OfS?
It’s what’s known in the trade as a marmalade dropper. This morning, while you read Playbook over your toast and confiture of choice, we bring you news that after months of refusing to acknowledge the problem, the Westminster government is to set aside an additional £50 million for student hardship support.
Fiona McIntyre has the details of the announcement, which Alistair Jarvis, chief executive of Universities UK, called “a welcome acknowledgement”, and Jo Grady, general secretary of the University and College Union, called “a sticking plaster”. Never mind that the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Students estimated that £700m was needed to tackle the problem; it just goes to show what can happen when students appear on the front page of the Daily Express in the ‘right’ way.
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