A London council will spend more than £1m per year on payments to young people in further education, effectively replacing a government scheme scrapped amid austerity, and a bursary for students.
Universities and colleges should make fundamental changes to diversify their student bodies and ensure increased access to higher education, the Office for Fair Access has said.
Funding for pupils aged 16 to 18 in England has been “continually squeezed”, despite increases in education spending across three decades, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has found.
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills should redirect £500m from university grant funding into further education and extend the student loan system to FE students, the Policy...
