Extend part-time loans, IPPR report to urge

By Jack Grove, Elizabeth Gibney. Ministers should extend student loans to many more part-time students to remedy a “crisis” in recruitment, a thinktank commission is set to recommend. Led by Nigel Thrift, vice-chancellor of the University of Warwick, the Institute for Public Policy Research’s Commission on the Future of Higher Education will call for sweeping changes to stop the steady decline in part-time students since 2010 when it publishes its final report on 10 June. Read more...