Geoff Layer’s criticism of the Workplace for Fair Access’s response to the government’s decision to minimize nationwide scholarship funding (NSP) for 2014-15 (Letters, 3 December) is wholly unjustified.
Right from the start off, our overriding concern has been to minimise the affect of these changes on students from poorer backgrounds. We have worked tough with Ucas and the Larger Schooling Funding Council for England to make sure that students acquire clear details about what is occurring and, if they wish, can change their selections prior to the Ucas deadline of 15 January. We also pressed for the removal of the £1,000 income limit on NSP assistance, which could imply many students see a lot more money in their pockets. In our advice to universities who now have to reopen their 2014-15 accessibility agreements, we made it clear that they ought to minimise any prospective unfairness to candidates.
Of program we will not welcome a lower in the government spending budget supporting poorer college students. We expressed our disappointment quite obviously in the statement we issued as soon as the government announced its determination. It’s really worth pointing out that we, with each other with the NUS, had been the only HE organisations to do so.
Professor Les Ebdon
Director of Honest Accessibility to Higher Schooling
Unfair criticism | @guardianletters
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