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In the Summer Budget of 2015, the Chancellor announced some further changes to higher education funding and student support. This briefing note assesses each of these reforms in turn. The authors start by providing a brief overview of the model underlying our estimates. Next they discuss the implications of the removal of maintenance grants for students and the government, followed by the likely implications of the proposed changes to the repayment threshold, fees and the discount rate, which will all be subject to public consultation. The note ends with some brief conclusions.