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Students throughout the country, have condemned the recent increases in student grants as totally imadeouate. In fact, the increases designed to cover the next three years do not even approach the 32%, incomes policy "norm, Consultations with the National Union of Students - the students’ ‘trade union' were neglible and despite previous Labour promises the odious means test on grants remains,

The Yorkshire Post on May 26th quoted protests from practically every Northern Students' Union, Hill Savage, President of the National Union of Students, ‘said that they had been "thrown a stale crust slightly smeared with dripping”- the increases did not even keep pace with increased costs over the last three years. The Government entirely ignored the Standing Advisory Committee on students’ awards.