A system that was once a decent compromise has become a toxic mess of soaring debt and graduate grievances. More...
30 juillet 2017
30 juillet 2017
UK student loan debt soars to more than £100bn
News of 16.6% jump in outstanding debt follows Labour’s general election pledge to scrap tuition fees. More...
30 juillet 2017
Are you struggling to pay back your student loan?
Are you having issues paying back your student debt? We’d like you to help us understand the pressures you face. More...
30 juillet 2017
Student loans are deeply unfair
In your piece about the Open University (Jobs put at risk as Open University seeks £100m in savings, 14 June) you mention the impact of the introduction of tuition fees. In fact, OU students have always paid tuition fees and these increased, in line with inflation, for over 40 years. More...
27 juillet 2017
Most graduates will never pay off their student loans
New finding show that more than 70% of students who left university last year are never expected to finish repaying their loans. The report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) shows that many of these graduates – the first cohort to pay the higher £9,000 fees – will be making repayments for 30 years. More...
26 juillet 2017
Let graduates use super to pay off HELP debt faster
If the Senate passes budget reforms for higher education, Higher Education Loan Program (HELP) repayments would start earlier, with a wider range of rates: 1% of income for those earning A$42,000, rising to 10% at $120,000. More...13 juillet 2017
Few Solutions for Defrauded Borrowers
By Andrew Kreighbaum. Student advocates say Education Department’s slow processing of borrower-defense claims and blocking of ban on mandatory arbitration put defrauded borrowers in a bind. More...
13 juillet 2017
DeVos Allows Career Programs to Delay Disclosure to Students
By Andrew Kreighbaum. Two weeks after announcing a regulatory rewrite of the gainful-employment rule for nondegree career education programs, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced late Friday that she was delaying key provisions of the existing rule. More...
13 juillet 2017
Beneficiaries of the DeVos Delay
By Andrew Kreighbaum. Seizing on a narrow court order affecting cosmetology programs, education secretary delayed key provisions of gainful-employment regulations. But the suspended provisions will affect a broad range of vocational programs with questionable outcomes. More...
13 juillet 2017
Analysis: Refinancing Would Help Small Number of Households
By Andrew Kreighbaum. An analysis of a popular proposal allowing borrowers to refinance federal student loans finds that most of the benefits of refinancing would be seen by a small number of households with relatively high debt. More...
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