Support for students from the European Union to study in Britain next year will cost UK taxpayers ?50 million, it was claimed this week. Stephen O'Brien, the Conservative higher education spokesman, said that maintenance grants would cost ?10 million and subsidising student loans would cost a further ?40 million. Mr O'Brien added that the Government expected a 45 per cent rise in EU students studying in the UK in future.
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