BBC News Online: Budget 2015: Student maintenance grants scrapped
Published on July 9, 2015
BBC News Online’s coverage of the Budget’s announcement that student maintenance grants would be replaced by loans included our response to the Chancellor of the Exchequer‘s measures.
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