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            <h3 class="cvGsUA direction-ltr align-justify para-style-body"><span class="OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none">NUS-USI welcomes the Economy Minister’s announcement that an additional £1 million of financial hardship funding has been allocated to universities for distribution to students across Northern Ireland.</span></h3><p class="cvGsUA direction-ltr align-justify para-style-body"><strong><span class="OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none">This is an important first step from the NI Executive to relieve students from the unprecedented cost of living pressures they face.</span></strong></p>
<p class="cvGsUA direction-ltr align-justify para-style-body"><span class="OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none">We urgently need to address the alarming scale of student poverty in NI. Whilst this is a welcome investment, these funds are restrictive and time consuming — forcing students to jump through hurdles to access basic support. We must see a more impactful and universal investment into immediate student support for all learners, including our students and apprentices in further education who are continually left behind.</span></p>
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  branding: false,
  menubar: false,
  fix_list_elements: true,
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  relative_urls: false,
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  fix_list_elements: true,
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  browser_spellcheck: true,
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  branding: false,
  menubar: false,
  fix_list_elements: true,
  forced_root_block: "p",
  convert_urls: false,
  relative_urls: false,
  browser_spellcheck: true,
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  menubar: false,
  fix_list_elements: true,
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  convert_urls: false,
  relative_urls: false,
  browser_spellcheck: true,
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