£6,000 help for poorer students as Clegg hopes to appease critics
Bright students from poor families will receive £6,000 a year towards university tuition fees of up to £9,000 under a plan to be announced by the Government today.
Universities in England that want to charge more than £6,000 in fees from next year will have to fund a national scholarship programme in return. The scheme will be worth £150m annually by 2014-15, when 48,000 students from families with an income of less than £25,000 a year will be helped. At present, about one-third of the 340,000 undergraduates are in this income group but are less likely to go to the elite universities than those from better-off households …