The GW4 Alliance of Bath, Bristol, Cardiff and Exeter Universities with the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) is calling on the government to extend the current undergraduate Childcare Grant to postgraduate students.
A joint report outlines the impact of the gap in childcare support for postgraduate students, and makes recommendations to government on how to best address the issue.
Unlike students studying for full-time undergraduate degrees, postgraduates on taught courses, as well as researchers, are ineligible for Childcare Grants.
Extending the same undergraduate childcare support to postgraduates would help ensure that those with children, and from the most economically disadvantaged backgrounds, were not disincentivised from studying for higher qualifications, they said.
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