"Students and lecturers at more than 100 schools and colleges across the country will stage marches and sit-ins at lunchtime after the Coalition said it would be axing the £30-a-week payments.
"The payments Education Maintenance Allowance are received by 600,000 teenagers from lower income families in English sixth forms and colleges. The grant is due to be scrapped in September.
"Mr Miliband will release a video endorsing the protests this morning."