Article: Best time ever for poorer students to go to university - Rammell.

M2 PRESSWIRE-14 July 2005-UK Government: Best time ever for poorer students to go to university - Rammell(C)1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD

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Higher Education Minister Bill Rammell today said that there had never been a better time for poorer students to go to university.

He confirmed that he expected fifty-five of new full-time students going in to higher education in 2006/7 to qualify for a maintenance grant. He also announced increases in the amount of support available in the form of loans which are well above the rate of inflation (an increase of as much as 19.2% if you are student living away from home in London).

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