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| Welsh top-up fees grant scrapped | Welsh top-up fees grant scrapped |
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| A grant which off-sets the cost of student top-up fees in Wales will be phased out from September 2010. | A grant which off-sets the cost of student top-up fees in Wales will be phased out from September 2010. |
| Education Minister Jane Hutt said more help would be offered to students from lower income backgrounds. | Education Minister Jane Hutt said more help would be offered to students from lower income backgrounds. |
| At the moment students from Wales studying in Wales receive a grant of £1,940 regardless of their background. | At the moment students from Wales studying in Wales receive a grant of £1,940 regardless of their background. |
| Ms Hutt said the plans meant more students would be able to access higher education and there would be a "level playing field" for all Welsh students. | Ms Hutt said the plans meant more students would be able to access higher education and there would be a "level playing field" for all Welsh students. |
| Ms Hutt told Welsh Assembly Members that £44m would be redirected towards increasing the assembly learning grant, a means-tested grant to help students' with their living costs, from £2,906 to £5,000. | |
| Ms Hutt said the family income threshold would rise by £10,000 to ensure that Welsh undergraduates were not worse off than those in England. | |
| The minister also announced plans to write off student loan debts of up to £1,500 from 2010. | |
| She said that by 2015 higher education institutions in Wales would be receiving an extra £31m a year, including funding for bursaries and scholarships. | |
| Current students will continue to be entitled to the tuition fee grant until they finish their studies. |