In Parliament

Abstract

Replying to a debate on students grants, the Minister of State, Department of Education and Science, Mrs Shirley Williams, said that the present grant system had a recent birth. It dated back only to 1962 and since that time there had been a sharp increase in the overall cost of student awards. Whereas in 1963–64 the total value of all student awards was £71·3 million, in 1967–68 it had jumped to £129·6 million and next year, after the Brown recommendations were carried out, it was expected that the total sum would be £155·4 million. That was an increase of 118 per cent over only five years.

Citation

(1968), "In Parliament", Education + Training, Vol. 10 No. 6, pp. 254-254. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb015984