Graduates are “over-burdened” by their student debt with the majority of student loan holders saying the repayment combined with the current tax levels are worse than they expected, a survey has...
Interest rates on some student loans will be capped to protect graduates from inflation-tracking hikes, should prices rise as a result of conflict in the Middle East.
The government should look to radical changes to student loan repayments rather than tinkering with interest rates if it is serious about meaningful reductions on the squeeze on workers’ pay packets...
Over 2,000 more teachers could stay in the profession every year if the government reimbursed some of their student loan repayments, analysis has suggested.
Tweaking the student loans system to boost public finances is “essentially impossible” without hitting average-earning graduates harder than their high-earning peers, according to Institute for...
The Office for National Statistics has begun work to look at reclassifying students loans so they are treated in a unique way in the national accounts.
Prime minister Theresa May’s reforms to the student finance system will save graduates significant amounts of money but increase costs to the taxpayer by around 40%, Institute for Fiscal...
The government’s decision to scrap maintenance grants and replace them with loans will increase the debt burden faced by poorer students but do little to improve the public finances, according...
The trebling of tuition fees appears unlikely to produce expected savings for the Exchequer. And graduates will repay twice as much, nursing debts well into their 50s. So what’s gone wrong?
The government has got its sums badly wrong on student loans. Fifty-somethings could still be paying off their debts, and 45 per cent of students are likely to default. What can be done?
Plans by the Chancellor to finance 30,000 new university places by selling off the student loan book are worse than economic nonsense. They are based on flawed thinking and flawed accounting
Why are some young people deterred from applying to university by tuition fees, while others appear unconcerned? New research suggests that parental earnings and education are strong influencing...
