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BOLTON’S Green Party have said that “students deserve better” after college bursaries were cut. The party has responded to the report by The Bolton News last week that nearly 900 students at Bolton’s Sixth Form College are set to have their bursary cut due to a funding crisis. The college’s principal said due to both the pandemic and the school’s expansion, the 893 students who receive a bursary are set to have this cut due to funds running out. The college, with MP for Bolton South East Yasmin Qureshi, is calling on the government to provide an uplift in funding. ....
SIXTH-form college bosses in Bolton say they have had to cut bursaries for over half of its students. Bolton Sixth Form principal Stuart Merrills says the college’s bursary funding has dried up due to a number of factors, including taking on more students with its recent expansion and the pandemic, meaning students need more support for remote learning. The college’s bursary funding, between £9 and £20 a week per student, for this year is based on the previous year (2019) before the college took on more students and before the long-term effects of coronavirus were known. Mr Merrills, along with Bolton South East MP Yasmin Qureshi, is calling on the government to lift their funding to make sure students on bursaries are not negatively affected. ....