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Student Support in Wales: A Case of Progressive Universalism?

Higher Education Funding and Access in International Perspective

ISBN: 978-1-78754-654-7, eISBN: 978-1-78754-651-6

Publication date: 9 May 2018

Abstract

This chapter considers how far political devolution has enabled the government in Wales to develop a distinctive approach to student funding. It examines in particular claims that policy choices in Wales on student funding reflect a commitment to ‘progressive universalism’, a term sometimes used by policy-makers in Wales and elsewhere to describe combining means-tested and non-means-tested benefits. The chapter also explores the growing use of income-contingent loans, arguing that such loans complicate debates about targeting and universalism.

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Blackburn, L.H. (2018), "Student Support in Wales: A Case of Progressive Universalism?", Riddell, S., Minty, S., Weedon, E. and Whittaker, S. (Ed.) Higher Education Funding and Access in International Perspective (Great Debates in Higher Education), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 13-37. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78754-651-620181002

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