The long-term cost of high student debt in the UK is not just for graduates | Heather Stewart

Labour’s changes to the student loan system have turned frustration into full-blown fury, which is likely to benefit its opponents at the ballot boxStudent loans: ‘My debt rose £20,000 to £77,000 even though I’m paying’“It is not right that people who don’t go to university are having to bear all the cost for others to do so,” Rachel Reeves remarked this week, amid the increasingly angry row about student loans.But if something is “not right” here, it’s the complex and confusing loan system, and the debt burden borne by some recent graduates of English and Welsh universities. Continue reading...

The long-term cost of high student debt in the UK is not just for graduates | Heather Stewart

Labour’s changes to the student loan system have turned frustration into full-blown fury, which is likely to benefit its opponents at the ballot box

“It is not right that people who don’t go to university are having to bear all the cost for others to do so,” Rachel Reeves remarked this week, amid the increasingly angry row about student loans.

But if something is “not right” here, it’s the complex and confusing loan system, and the debt burden borne by some recent graduates of English and Welsh universities. Continue reading...

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