I mean it is happening already... https://www.theguardian.com/money/2017/feb/06/universities-minister-announces-sale-of-student-loan-book
In theory, all it should mean is that the loan is paid back on the same terms to a private company (Erudio), in reality, it means that the collecting is more...
I don't think the fees take anything away from the university experience, I loved every second of it.
As I said in my later post, I find the saddest thing about it not the details and the repayments in real terms but the idea that it does nothing more on an individual basis than act as a...
Absolutely, for me (and I am extremely lucky that I come from a background of financial stability) the real terms of the loan will likely never truly effect me.
However, I have multiple friends (I went to state school in London) who didn't go to university because of the idea of student debt...
Without going all woe is me, the problem isn't that there is a student loan at all (though ideally education should never be about pricing) it's that it is now three times as expensive as it was for people a year older than me (I was the first year of 9k tuition fees).
I stayed at University...