Current status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 17 January 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide details of any changes to the rates of student support for further and higher education students that will apply for academic year 2008-09.
I am delighted to announce thenew rates of support for students in further and higher education for academic year2008-09. I am today placing in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre details of the rates of those loans, bursaries and grants, which will be available to eligibleundergraduate and postgraduate students in full-time higher education.
Ageneral uprating factor of 2.5%, in line with inflation, will be applied to theexisting schemes of support in 2008-09, thus maintaining their value in realterms.
the Scottish Funding Council (SFC) has also agreed to maintain the alignment betweenthe further and higher education sectors by, where appropriate, uprating the supportavailable to further education students by 2.5%.
A copy of these rates is alsobeing placed in the Scottish ParliamentInformation Centre (44263).