“We are struggling to make ends meet and even a coffee is a novelty. Students already are having it hard and now the future is very bleak.”
That’s the assessment of one college student in the north-east of England, but one that students across the country recognise as the cost of living crisis continues.
FE leaders spoke to FE Week about how they are having to go to further and further lengths beyond that of simply providing education, such as clothing students out of their own pockets, while the National Union of Students warns that students are being pushed to the brink, with some being forced to drop out of education.
