Nick Boles takes swipe at National Union of Students as Labour attempt to block proposal to replace grants with loans is voted down in CommonsA political party’s attitude towards student finance is a main indicator of its fitness for government,the skills minister Nick Boles has said, describing the National Union of Students (NUS) as “the national union of shroud wavers”.
Speaking in a Commons debate on the government’s decision to scrap student maintenance grants and replace them with loans, or Boles said the government had to choose between limiting access to a university education or offering all those able to benefit from it “a system of subsidised student finance”.
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Source: theguardian.com