HC Deb 11 July 1988 vol 137 cc22-3W
Mr. Amess:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will place in the Library the terms of reference of his Department's review of student finance; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Jackson

The terms of reference of the student support review areTo review the present arrangements for the financial support of students studying at first degree level or equivalent in Great Britain and to consider the future basis for such support, having regard to:

  1. i. the situation and/ the maintenance needs of students, and the extent to which it is appropriate that those needs should be supported from public funds;
  2. ii. other actual and possible sources of support which would allow the removal of students from the social security system—including the case for a system involving loans as well as grants, and the contribution of sponsorship to the needs of students on vocationally oriented courses;
  3. iii. the Government's stated policies for higher education and access to it; and
  4. iv. arrangements made in other countries with developed systems for the financial support of students.