Published last week, HEPI’s report A Minimum Income Standard for Students highlighted the ‘bleak picture’ painted by the latest research on the impacts of the cost-of-living crisis, with more than a quarter of universities now hosting food banks, seven in ten students having considered giving up their studies in the face of escalating living costs, and the maximum maintenance support generally covering less than two-thirds of those costs – leading the report’s authors to call for solutions whereby ‘all students should be able to reach a minimum acceptable standard of living’.
