Poorer pupils could have fees paid

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2010&sol;12&sol;poorer-pupils-could-have-fees-paid&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full" title&equals;"Nick Clegg is said to favour a scheme whereby disadvantaged students get a year's tuition fees paid for them" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2010&sol;12&sol;min-poorer-pupils-could-have-fees-paid&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Nick Clegg is said to favour a scheme whereby disadvantaged students get a year's tuition fees paid for them"&sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Bright youngsters from disadvantaged backgrounds could have up to two years of their university tuition fees paid for them under new Government plans&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ministers believe that 18&comma;000 students a year could benefit from the scheme&comma; saving up to £18&comma;000 from the cost of their higher education and significantly increasing the numbers of children from poorer families who go to university&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Under the scheme&comma; any student eligible for free school meals who is accepted for a place at university would have one year&&num;8217&semi;s fees paid by the state&comma; said a Government source&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Universities which choose to charge more than £6&comma;000 a year in fees &&num;8211&semi; expected to include elite institutions such as Oxford and Cambridge &&num;8211&semi; will be required to fund a further year&&num;8217&semi;s tuition for these students&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The state&&num;8217&semi;s share of funding for the scheme will be covered by a £150 million National Scholarship Programme announced by Business Secretary Vince Cable when he unveiled the Government&&num;8217&semi;s proposals for an increase in the fees cap from £3&comma;375 to £9&comma;000 from 2013&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ministers will next week consult with representatives of students and universities before deciding how the Scholarship Programme money will be spent&period; But the proposal for a year&&num;8217&semi;s free tuition has emerged as the preferred option over alternatives such as an increase in the maintenance grant for poorer students&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It has strong backing from Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg&comma; who believes the Government needs to shift the debate away from the political contortions his Liberal Democrats are going through over which way they will vote on fees&comma; and on to the measures being taken to ensure the package is fair&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Liberal Democrat sources have said it had still not been decided which way their 57 MPs &&num;8211&semi; including Mr Clegg &&num;8211&semi; will vote in Thursday&&num;8217&semi;s key House of Commons vote on fees&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Cable sowed confusion with a local newspaper interview on Friday in which he said he had &&num;8220&semi;no doubt&&num;8221&semi; he would vote in favour of the legislation&comma; which as Business Secretary he is responsible for guiding through Parliament&period; 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