Impact assessment

Higher education grants and loans 2020 to 2021: equality analysis

Analysis of how changes made to student support for the 2020 to 2021 academic year will affect specific protected groups.

• From: Department for Education
• Published: 24 January 2020

This was published under the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

Applies to England

Documents

Higher education student finance, 2020 to 2021: equality analysis

Ref: DfE-00015-2020

PDF, 283 KB, 21 pages

Details

An assessment of the effect that changes made to higher education student finance will have on groups with relevant protected characteristics.

The changes for the 2020 to 2021 academic year include:

• increases in grants and loans for living and other costs for undergraduates
• increases in loans for students starting postgraduate master’s degree courses
• increases in loans for students starting postgraduate doctoral degree courses
• other amendments to the student finance support system

The relevant protected characteristics, identified in the Equality Act 2010, include:

• disability
• gender reassignment
• pregnancy and maternity
• race
• religion or belief
• sex and sexual orientation

Published 24 January 2020