Graduates to be hit with ‘tax rise by stealth’ on their student loans Millions of university graduates in England face higher repayments on their student loans as the government freezes the earnings threshold at which they start repaying. The universities minister, Michelle Donelan, announced on Friday 28th January that the salary threshold for undergraduate student […]
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Buy now, Pay Later
Yudy Wu interrogates the loan service Klarna and worries of its student appeal
Til debt do us part
Online News Editor, Pete Syme discusses the rising problem of debt and the possibility of reducing student loans in order to combat it.
The Student Loan Debate
When applying to University, I was astonished to discover that as a 20-year-old woman I would still have to be financially dependent on my parents for three more years due to the means tested maintenance loans. Legally I could drive, drink alcohol, and get married, yet for the next three years I would be treated […]
More than a third of graduates regret attending university
More than a third of UK graduates regret going to university according to new research by Aviva into the finances of millennials. Aviva found that 37% of graduates regretted university due to the high amounts of debt they now had. Furthermore, 49% said they could have got to where they are now – without their […]