There will also be maintenance grants and extra loans for poorer students to cover living costs.
State universities have also virtuously kept financial aid for poorer students in place.
Mr Brown told his audience that the Welsh Assembly's new grant for poorer students was being "watched closely" in London.
It has not commented on this particular case but argues in general that its plans provide good support for poorer students.
Clarke has also promised scholarships for poorer students and a system to help people from working class backgrounds to enter higher education.
He said the challenge would be for universities which wanted to introduce higher fees to re-cycle the income to create bursaries for poorer students.
The higher fees rise, the harder it will be for poorer students to go to university, for they will have to carry bigger debts into adulthood.
Today Pell Grants, mostly Pell Grants, federal grants for students from poorer families, cover 57% of the tuition expenses at four year public universities.
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The federal government, meanwhile, with regard to Pell Grants and grants related to Pell Grants for students from poorer families has dramatically cut the Pell Grant system.
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The Scottish Government has highlighted its creation of an extra 2, 000 places for Scots students from poorer backgrounds and record numbers of students acquiring higher education qualifications.
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"We expect there to be a wide range of charges, and those institutions discussing higher charge levels all look set to include substantial waivers for students from poorer backgrounds, " the business secretary said.
For-profit colleges generally attract poorer students and offer more-expensive courses than their public and not-for-profit rivals.
But she also highlighted that the main underlying reasons for under-representation of poorer students was because of lower results in school and a lack of advice.
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Some of the money is for scholarships to students who have worked in community development projects, and some is seed capital for students who want to try to help out in poorer neighborhoods around Tufts.
"There is a real danger that this review will pave the way for higher fees and a market in prices that would see poorer students priced out of more prestigious universities and other students and universities consigned to the 'bargain basement', " said NUS president, Wes Streeting.
The committee is not due to report until the end of the year, but this week it published a consultation paper which provides ammunition for those who believe that cuts in government funding do penalise students from poorer families.
Most new students will not pay upfront, there will be more financial support for those from poorer families and everyone will make lower loan repayments than they do now once they are in well paid jobs.
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As part of the deal for charging higher fees, universities have to set out how they will encourage applications from students from poorer backgrounds - such as offering bursaries and running outreach projects.
The legal team acting for Callum Hurley, from Peterborough, and Katy Moore, from London, are expected to argue that poorer students and those from ethnic minorities could be discriminated against by the change.
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