[MigrantCause.com] UK Government's discrimination in Higher Education

 

Pupils denied university place due to immigration status 'should get loans'

Providing loans to teenagers who are denied university places because of their immigration status would benefit the whole of society, the supreme court has been told.

Opening a challenge against government restrictions on eligibility for student finance, Helen Mountfield QC said that hundreds of pupils every year were being condemned to less productive lives. "They have settled in this country, in effect cannot be removed, but are unable to go to university," she told the five supreme court justices hearing the case.

Under guidelines operated by the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills, those granted discretionary or limited leave to remain in the UK are not entitled to a student loan. Only those with citizenship or indefinite leave to remain can borrow the full £9,000 a year.

More:

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jun/24/pupils-denied-university-place-immigration-status-should-get-loans

 

Young, gifted and blocked: Meet the young people denied student loans in Britain

Changes made to the student loan system in 2011 mean that hundreds of smart young people who have lived in the UK for years won't be able to accept their university offers due to lack of funding. Radhika Sanghani meets them

Dozens of students are standing outside the Supreme Court in London, chanting: "Young, gifted and blocked!"

Their T-shirts are emblazoned with the same message. While their placards read: "Bright, ambitious, hard-working… and heartbroken. Let us learn."

All these students want is the right to do just that: study.

They have all received offers from British universities and are predicted to achieve the necessary grades to take up their chosen course, come August. Some have already completed their A-levels and passed with flying colours.

They should, by rights, be celebrating their success and heading off to uni.

But instead they spent Wednesday morning, this week, campaigning for a change in the Government's student finance system.

More:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/11696221/Student-loans-University-students-in-Britain-are-being-denied-funding.html

 

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