I've been forcibly struck by the number of policy changes - U turns - we have recently seen across government. Perhaps this is an inevitable consequence of coalition government. And it may be the government trying to stave off excessive public disquiet at a time when there are hard decison to be made. Of course, one interpretation is that the government is genuinely listening to the public's concerns. And in the exemplar case of EMAs, I am deeply relieved that the government is doing something to support students in the most hardship; as a governor of a college with 1,786 students on EMA, of whom 1,564 are on the maximum grant, the transitional support and the replacement funding, limited though it is, will make a real difference.
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