Dr. Ruth Freeman:

We spoke about this before. We have endorsed the need to increase the stipend to a level people can live on because the stipend has not increased for a number of years. In the interim we have put some measures in place for our non-EU students who have additional costs for things like visas and mandatory healthcare. We are covering those issues while we await the formal review from Government, which we anticipate coming soon. The unified recommendation across the system is that we need to act quickly and that as an interim measure we need to support those students urgently. That is a top priority issue for us.