MEANS TEST FOR STUDENTS
Big Relaxation In Britain (Special Correspondent N.Z.P.A.) (Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, December 2. Sir David Eccles, the Education Minister, announced in the House of Commons a big cut in the contribution of British parents to university costs of their children. It was the result, he said, of the “means test” on grants to students being relaxed considerably, though not abolished. Under the new scale, no contribution at all will be required if the parents’ income is below £7OO. The relaxations will cost about £lO million in a full year and will mean that 40 per cent, of students, compared with the present 25 per cent., will receive full grants. This in turn will release 10,000 more families from paying a contribution. Sir David Eccles added; “This drastic relaxation of the means test is without prejudice to full abolition if, on examination, it turns out that abolition is the right thing to do.”
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29379, 5 December 1960, Page 13
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