Moved by
Lord Stevenson of Balmacara
443: After Clause 82, insert the following new Clause—
“Access to support for students recognised as needing protection
(1) Within six months from the day on which this Act comes into force, the Secretary of State must, by regulations, make provision for financial support for higher education courses offered to students with certain immigration statuses.
(2) The regulations specified in subsection (1) must include, but shall not be restricted to—
(a) provision for persons who have been brought to the UK under the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Relocation Scheme, or any equivalent scheme, and their family members to access student loans on the same basis as refugees recognised in-country, and
(b) provision for persons who have claimed asylum and been granted a form of leave to remain in the UK to be eligible for—
(i) home fees for a higher education course if they have been ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom and Islands since being granted leave, and
(ii) student loans for a higher education course, if—
(a) they have been ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom and Islands since being granted leave, and
(b) are ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom and Islands on the first day of the first academic term of that course.
(3) In this section—
“home fees” means fees for a higher education course charged to persons considered as “qualifying persons” under regulations made under the Higher Education Act 2004;
“student loans” means loans made to students in connection with their undertaking of a higher education course under the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998.”