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July 4th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The National Union of Students (NUS) baulked at the figures, gleaned from the latest report by the Office for Fair Access (Offa) on access deals with universities charging more than £6,000 per year, the daily Morning Star reported.
Offa earlier this week hailed a headline-grabbing spending increase of £350m on disadvantaged students by 2015-16.
But the NUS warned that spending on scholarships and bursaries would plummet over the same period, from £358.5m in 2010-11 to £275.4m by 2015.
NUS president Liam Burns said that the shift in priorities simply reduced government borrowing figures at students’ expense, branding it “nothing short of daylight robbery.
“Many of those students most in need of support will be failed as a direct result of a regulator that thinks we will get more poor kids into uni by cutting the cash in their pockets,” he said.
“New leadership for Offa and a rethink of access agreements and student support cannot come a day too soon.”
An Offa spokeswoman said that they did not recognize the union’s figure but confirmed that a drop of at least £67.9m in bursary and scholarship spending once flexible “choice” programs – which allow students to decide the format – were taken into account.
But increased spending on fee waivers would see overall access spending nearly double, she said, from £407.3m at present to £758m by 2015-16.
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