MPs call for part-time grants and easing of ELQ funding rules

Experts welcome Boris Johnson’s Lifetime Skills Guarantee, but call for more details and further progress on obstacles to part-time study

2 October

PM heralds moves to create Lifetime Skills Guarantee and to open loans system to FE colleges so they can ‘compete’ with universities

29 September

Longevity experts predict that with universities forced online and desperate for new revenue, shift to older students will follow

15 May

Universities unable to deliver governments’ ‘unrealistic expectations’ of prosperity and social mobility, says English funding review member

26 March

Report from Education Committee says support should be focused on students on courses in ‘priority skill areas’