UK To Provide £15m Hardship Funding For International Students

The government of the United Kingdom has announced that it will provide an extra £15 million in hardship funding for international students.

The government will share the money to universities who will in turn give students who are struggling to cope with inflation in the country.

According to the British government, this will build on the £261 million student premium fund allocated this year – money targeted at supporting disadvantaged students.

Minister for skills, apprenticeships and higher education, Robert Halfon, said in a statement issued, “This extra funding will complement the help universities are providing through their own bursary, scholarship and hardship support schemes.”

The UK national union of students’ vice president for higher education, Chloe Field, welcomed the funding but said hardship funds were “a quick fix to a long-term problem which has come to a head in the cost of living crisis.”

Field urged the government to implement extra measures, including a rent freeze.