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MPs call for £5,000 student grants

MPs have called for students from poorer backgrounds to receive grants of up to £5,000 a year. A report from the Commons Education Select Committee argued that poorer students should be helped by increasing the interest rates on loans to those from more affluent backgrounds and using this to increase grants by to up to… Read more »

IDS speaks in Prague on EU

Iain Duncan Smith is expected to use a speech in the Czech capital Prague today to counter claims that he wants to pull the UK out of Europe. The opposition leader announced his intention to return to the issue of Europe earlier this year after spending the first part of his leadership playing down the… Read more »