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Grants, loans and hardship funds: what we can learn from the long history of student finance

By Georgina Brewis, Professor of Social History, UCL
Sam Blaxland, Lecturer in History, UCL

Student finance in England is up for debate once again, with extensive discussion on the perceived unfairness of the Plan 2 student loan repayment system

But concerns about how to pay for a university degree are far from new. Our new book Student London: A New History of Higher Education in the Capital explores the financial challenges…

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