student loans

Aidan Hall Back in August, the Department of Education announced that, starting from the 1st September, the interest rate applied to student loans will rise to 5.6%, up from the 5.4% of last year. As new and returning students head to university, Impact asks: why has this happened, and...

It’s official. From September 2017 some universities, including University of Nottingham, will be allowed to charge students over £9,000 to access higher education. This parliamentary decision has naturally provoked outrage amongst student communities. However, the backlash has not resorted to large-scale protests like the ones seen in 2012. Tuition...

You have probably seen that student maintenance grants have recently been ‘abolished’ by the government. This is not entirely true. Within hours of a decision made in 90 minutes by 18 MPs, my Timeline and Twitter feed were rife with misleading headlines, shared and retweeted by part time economists...

University students and graduates who took out student loans after 2012 are facing increases in the cost of loan repayments due to a hidden change to the system in the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement. When the current student loan system was launched in 2012, in order to mitigate the tripling...

As Impact News recently reported, the average student will have drained their bank account by the time they reach the two-month mark. This fact will leave many shaking their heads in disapproval and putting this down entirely to the stereotypical financial irresponsibility of the student, but if we compare...

Nottingham is the third most cost-effective student city in the country according to the 2015 Student Living Index. Undertaken by NatWest, the Student Living Index is a survey monitoring spending habits and the cost of living for students in 25 university cities. According to the statistics, Nottingham has moved...