Ministers claimed studies showed 90% of the 600,000 young people in receipt of EMA would have continued their studies anyway, and a better targeted replacement was required. The current EMA scheme is due to close to new applicants in January.
Hughes will also advise on the future shape of the planned £150m national scholarship fund. The coalition said it wants to look at a model of a foundation year for young people with high potential, but lower qualifications.
Hughes is also to be asked to look at ways in which universities charging more than £6,000 in fees annually will be obliged to meet obligations to make sure students from poor backgrounds are not deterred by fees as high as £9,000 a year.
The higher education minister, David Willetts, has already written to the Office of Fair Access asking it to draw up plans requiring universities charging more than £6,000 to set out schemes to ensure poor students are not priced out. The Willetts letter has been dismissed as vague by the National Union of Students.
However, the terms of reference of Hughess appointment, released today, make it clear that the fundamentals of the trebling of tuition fees will not be open to any change. It states: The advocate will focus on the effective communication and delivery of the governments policy programme, within the current budgetary parameters. Hughes is to be asked to prepare an initial communications strategy by the end of January.
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