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Posts from the ‘Debating and reporting student support’ Category

Student living cost support in England and Scotland: policies coming closer, scrutiny worlds apart on July 30, 2015

Can the Access Commission convince the Scottish Government to stop playing Jekyll and Hyde on student loans? on July 4, 2015

The Scottish Widening Access Commission: a remit not to challenge too hard? on June 24, 2015

Finance Committee consultation on new Scottish income tax powers: what would 1p buy? on June 6, 2015

The Scottish Government on student loan: just like grant, except when it’s not on June 2, 2015

They can’t believe it’s not better: backbenchers invent the £19,000 grant on May 24, 2015

Widening Access Commission membership announced: timetable and remit still tbc on April 29, 2015

Constance’s first statement on student support: a change of tone and a hint? on April 28, 2015

Student support and the Widening Access Commission on April 25, 2015

FoI and PQs shed some light on government claim about student borrowing on April 24, 2015

16 years in, tuition fees set to remain a defining issue of UK devolution on April 21, 2015

Funding increased student numbers: a bit of creative accounting in the higher education budget on April 16, 2015

“Plain wrong” turns out to be dead right on April 15, 2015

SAAS site now fully up-to-date – but still no announcement on April 14, 2015

Funding the extension of EMA in Scotland: new(ish) policy, old politics? on March 30, 2015

Nicola Sturgeon at the LSE: why do Scottish First Ministers have such trouble understanding their own student finance system? on March 23, 2015

Student support, “trust” and whose words can be believed on March 18, 2015

Student grants make it to FMQs – and the FM changes the subject on March 16, 2015

Background to figures in Sceptical.Scot article on March 15, 2015

Scotland and Northern Ireland: the UK’s surprising laboratories for unregulated fees on March 4, 2015