The table illustrates how much British students had in their budget and where their income was

from over the

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period from 1988/1989 to 1998/1999.
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Overall, it can be seen that there was an upward trend in their total income despite a fall in grants and parental
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contribution.
Looking at the detail, in the first academic year students in the UK had L4,395 in their budget. Then, this
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number dropped slightly to L4,048 before surging in the remaining years to L5,575 in 1998/1999.
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Grants and parents contributed the most to the students' income in 1988/1989 with 38% and 32% respectively.
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However, both of these sources experienced a decrease during the period to 14% anf 16% in turn.
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On the other hand/ In contrast, there was a significant rise in the contribution of student loan, with 8% in
1992/1993 growing / tripling to 24% in the last year although students got nothing from this source in the
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first year. Similarly, earnings contributed more and more over the period from 6% to 12%. Lastly, the
contribution of other sources made up 24% in the first year, but it then rose to 34% in the last year despite a
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slight drop in the second year.
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