Petition Re - instate student maintenance grant backdated to August 2016.

It was announced in July 2015 that from August 2016 the student maintenance grant was to be replaced by a maintenance loan subject to repayment. This was insufficient notice of a significant change and results in an unfair additional long term financial burden on English student cohorts from 2016.

More details

The change in financial arrangements is fundamentally unfair and should be revised because:

1. It has a disproportionate long term financial impact upon students from lower and middle income families and in comparison with students from previous years and other parts of the UK
2.It results in an additional element of inequality for English students in being able to access higher education compared to the financial support available to students from the rest of the UK

This petition closed early because of a General Election Find out more on the Petitions Committee website

9 signatures

Show on a map

10,000

Date closed 6 November 2019
Get petition data (json format)

About petition data

The data shows the number of people who have signed the petition by country as well as in the constituency of each Member of Parliament. This data is available for all petitions on the site. It is not a list of people who have signed the petition. The only name that is shared on the site is that of the petition creator.