Caution over student grants.(News)

From: Coventry Evening Telegraph (England) | Date: August 8, 2002 | Copyright information

EDUCATION Department officials were today playing down reports that 500,000 university students are set to be given grants worth about pounds 30 a week.

The Times today reported that education allowances set to be paid from 2004 to students aged 16 to 18 from less well-off families who stay on at school were to be extended to undergraduates.

The paper said agreement had been reached between Education Secretary Estelle Morris and Ch...

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