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RE: Student Loans - tHEgLASSdOORS - 02-06-2026
I was fortunate to get on plan 1 which wasn’t worth the paper it was written on.
RE: Student Loans - Protheroe - 02-06-2026
(02-06-2026, 10:43 AM)baggy1 Wrote: How would that work Proth?
It would apply to anyone who is a graduate.
University Tuition Fees should be funded by the state, with means tested grants for accommodation. We also ought to place minimum standards on University entry and scrap any course where graduate destinations have been to less than, say 70% of the median wage.
I was with a 26 year old med school graduate (now a junior doctor) on Plan2 yesterday who faces a working lifetime of egregious taxation, even taking into account the earnings potential she has.
I paid pretty much fuck all for my University education which opened doors I previously never knew existed. Given how the young have been utterly shafted by successive governments since the GFC the least I can do is pay a hypothecated tax towards their education.
RE: Student Loans - Ted Maul - 02-06-2026
I've just checked mine. Having graduated 12 years ago, I've got less than £10k to pay.
RE: Student Loans - man in the corner shop - 02-06-2026
(02-06-2026, 10:00 AM)richbaggie Wrote: https://x.com/i/status/2019559915220840689
Wasn't the only thing that Oli Dugmore nailed last night. Impressive performance all round.
Nailed Labour and Mandelson too
I've been very lucky
First degree state paid for. And grant.
First Masters, employer paid for
Second Masters, employer paid for.
So I am very sympathetic to all these students who, when you add up student loan repayments and being mortgaged beyond their hairlines, are signing up to slavery and bondage.
RE: Student Loans - Protheroe - 02-06-2026
Crikey, I agree with MICS
RE: Student Loans - Fido - 02-06-2026
I'm fully expecting to be subsidising my kids in some shape or form until they are 30 or so.
RE: Student Loans - man in the corner shop - 02-06-2026
(02-06-2026, 05:52 PM)Protheroe Wrote: Crikey, I agree with MICS
It has been known
RE: Student Loans - man in the corner shop - 02-07-2026
This morning
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/feb/06/graduates-student-loans-finances
RE: Student Loans - HawkingsHalfpint - 02-08-2026
I was quite fortunate. Although going to uni the year Blair’s labour rather unfairly changed it all (so only a £1k grant for one year only), living with my unmarried old-dear at the time meant no fees to pay, and I didn’t borrow a lot. My old man paid the rent at student halls, which was cheap at the time. So probably borrowed under £3k, all told.
So whilst I paid it off pretty quickly, it was too quickly in fact for the exemplars of bureaucratic beauty the SLC allowing my overpayments grow into a four figure sum that they paid me back eventually; plus a favourable rate of interest. It was as much of a mess 20 years ago as it is now. In fact, the SLC makes the CSA look almost professional
RE: Student Loans - Birdman1811 - 02-08-2026
I owe 56K, I pay less than the interest every year, so it can never, ever be paid off, and that's while earning just short of 50k a year.