The government's ambition of having half of young people go to university will not be achieved because of growing student poverty, a university vice-chancellor says.
Students continue to face expulsion from their courses because they are unable to pay their bills.
The universities of Coventry and Central England are each writing to hundreds of students threatening to ban them from lectures, libraries and exams. The universities say they need the money to provide their services and have no choice but to get tough. The abolition of the maintenance grant is deterring them even more. There is now genuine student poverty. The problem was worst for those from middle income families, he said.