A STUDENT at one of the world’s most prestigious arts schools told the Star yesterday that without a maintenance grant she would have never have been able to go to university.

Central Saint Martins performance design student Katie Jalalipour (pictured below) said she would have had trouble affording her education were it not for the grant.

Children of families with incomes lower than £25,000 a year were until recently entitled to apply for a grant of over £3,000.

Asked whether she’d would have applied to university after Chancellor George Osborne scrapped the subsidy, Ms Jalalipour said: “If I didn’t have it I probably wouldn’t have been able to go at all.

“It’s so hard for us to get jobs anyway as students, so I don’t know how I would have paid my rent.

“Even if I lived at home I don’t know how I could afford the public transport to go to uni.

“I know people who don’t go to uni — they only go a few days a week because they can’t afford to pay public transport. It’s not fair.”