Press Release: Universities bailing out students due to loan delays
Responding to the BBC survey which shows that three quarters of universities have had to provide emergency funding to students due to the meltdown in the Government’s student finance system this year, Shadow Universities and Skills Secretary, David Willetts said:
“Universities have been forced to spend thousands of pounds helping students make ends meet as a direct result of the collapse of the Government’s system of student finance. Tens of thousands of students are yet to receive the money they are due, with disabled and poorer students particularly badly hit, but the Government still refuses to take responsibility.
“Ministers urgently need to get a grip on the crisis so that students are not forced to drop out and those that start university in January get their money on time.”
Notes to Editors
Universities ‘bail out students’ (BBC News Online, 18/11/09)