Adult learners will have access to maintenance loans under the government’s flagship lifelong loan entitlement (LLE), it has been announced.
This will be the first time that maintenance support will be available for adults studying part time and on modular courses, the Department for Education (DfE) said.
Ministers also confirmed that the controversial equivalent and lower level funding rule (ELQ), which prohibits funding for higher level courses at or below a level a learner is already qualified, will be scrapped under the scheme.
The DfE will today publish its response to the LLE consultation which closed last May, providing some much-needed detail ahead of debates on LLE legislation in parliament.
