Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
New calls to extend cost of living payments to all students in higher education
dailyrecord.co.ukA new online petition is calling on the UK Government to extend cost of living payment support to every student in higher education.
The petition indicates that around one-third of students receive just £5,000 a year in financial support through loans, grants or bursaries, a sum it suggests is two-thirds less than someone working full-time being paid the National Minimum Wage.It also argues that means-tested student loans are falling short of daily living costs due to higher inflation rates and states that “most students rely on Government loans, and should be entitled to a top up to help with the increased cost of living”.
The ‘Extend Cost of Living Payments to all students in higher education’ petition has been created and posted on the petitions-parliament website by Megan Cushnahan, PR Manager at Student Beans.
If the calls for cost of living payments, worth £900 in total over the next financial year, receives 10,000 signatures of support, then the UK Government will be obliged to give an official response.Additional funding for hardship funds at colleges and universities across Scotland, England and Wales was provided in April 2022 as part of the UK Government’s £37 billion package of support.
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