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Ethan Brown was informed in September 2024 that he had not been awarded a grade for one of his courses by the University of Glasgow, which meant he would not be eligible to graduate.

The government said the target would also include seeing at least 10% of young people pursuing higher technical courses or apprenticeships by 2040 - nearly double the current level.

The grants will apply to "tens of thousands" of students from lower-income households, targeted at those "studying priority courses that support the industrial strategy and the Labour government's wider mission to renew Britain".

However, because a medical degree can take five or six years to complete - longer than most other degree courses - the BMA argues that resident doctors may have built up more student debt than other graduates.

Year 10 students started studying the new courses earlier this month as part of the rollout of the Curriculum for Wales, with more new qualifications set to be introduced over the next two years.