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    • Wednesday, 23 August, 2023
      LexRetail & Consumer industry
      US student loans: consumer groups prep for a mortar boarding Premium content

      Credit card companies could also take a modest hit

      Columbia University students at a graduation ceremony
    • Friday, 11 August, 2023
      How to help children pay for university

      As the new academic year looms, parents face financial, social and educational dilemmas

    • Sunday, 30 July, 2023
      Universities demand more help for poorest students in England

      Report finds average annual rent in private accommodation will exceed maximum maintenance loan

    • Friday, 21 July, 2023
      UK universities
      Britons squeezed out of top universities by lucrative overseas students

      Intake of lower-paying domestic students drops at Russell Group as funding crisis bites

    • Sunday, 16 July, 2023
      UK universities
      Sunak announces crackdown on ‘poor quality’ university courses

      Higher education regulator will be required to limit number of students recruited on to certain courses

      Photo of university graduates on graduation day
    • Wednesday, 12 July, 2023
      Markets InsightTiffany Wilding
      US faces economic hit as student loan debt payments resume

      The end of a moratorium for millions of borrowers is likely to pose a significant headwind to consumption and savings

      Students at the University of California Los Angeles
    • Monday, 3 July, 2023
      News in-depthUS society
      Millions of US borrowers brace for the return of student debt payments

      End of a pandemic-era pause and debt-forgiveness scheme will ripple through the US economy as bills come due

    • Friday, 30 June, 2023
      The looming US student loan repayment shock in charts

      Millennials, Gen-Xers, pensioners . . .  say farewell to about $15.8bn of monthly spending power

    • Friday, 16 June, 2023
      Number of UK graduates repaying loans rises to 2.5mn

      Total student loan book reaches £200bn

      Students relax outside Manchester University
    • Monday, 29 May, 2023
      Stephen Bush
      The UK needs a new deal for its highly taxed graduates

      Repayments under the student loan system hinder their potential contributions to the economy

      Illustration of a graduate shaking hands while being handed a degree certificate, while the shadow shows the graduate handing over cash
    • Sunday, 9 April, 2023
      Minouche Shafik
      How to fix the UK’s higher and further education finance system

      There are precedents for what works — cross-party agreement on reforms that can be sustained for a generation

      Students from King’s College Cambridge on their graduation day last year
    • Tuesday, 28 February, 2023
      US politics & policy
      US Supreme Court conservatives cast doubt on Biden’s student loan relief

      Majority of justices express scepticism about administration’s $400bn programme

      Demonstrators in favour of cancelling student debt outside the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC
    • Wednesday, 11 January, 2023
      UK universities
      Warning of hardship for English students over size of rise in financial support

      Russell Group of universities hits out at government’s below-inflation increase in maintenance loans

      Students at UCL in London
    • Wednesday, 23 November, 2022
      Social affairs
      Students hit by cost of living crunch

      91 per cent of undergraduates worried about cost of living pressures, survey says

    • Tuesday, 22 November, 2022
      UK public finances
      Treasury bails out BoE for first losses on QE programme

      Central bank requires funding after raising interest rates but payments have no effect on overall public finances

      The Bank of England
    • Wednesday, 21 September, 2022
      James Hymers
      Should you pay your child’s university fees up front?

      Avoiding the student loan system will benefit graduates for decades to come

    • Friday, 2 September, 2022
      Social affairs
      Students battle to stay afloat in cost of living crisis

      Experts warn of undergraduate poverty and an increased gap between rich and poor

    • Thursday, 1 September, 2022
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Biden’s imperfect but necessary plan to tackle student debt

      America’s mountain of college loans harms rather than helps social mobility

      View between library shelves of a university student sitting studying at a desk
    • Monday, 29 August, 2022
      Stephen Bush
      Governments should beware the politics of tuition fees

      Joe Biden’s student debt deal shows how powerful graduates have become

      An illustration of a university mortar board, or graduation cap, with students on top and a hand holding a pair of scissors with a dollar sign attached
    • Sunday, 28 August, 2022
      LexUS politics & policy
      US universities: Chinese cohort needed to ease debt pressure Premium content

      Most schools expect number of foreign students to recover from pandemic lows this academic year

      Students walk on campus at Stanford university
    • Saturday, 27 August, 2022
      How US student loan debt has weighed down a generation of borrowers

      FT survey highlights the wide-ranging financial consequences that education debt burdens have had on Americans

      Montage of four people, three women and one man, with a photo of American dollars in the background and a red arrow going up.
    • Thursday, 25 August, 2022
      US student debt relief is an economic nothingburger

      Goldman Sachs doubts the impact on growth and inflation will be noticeable

    • Thursday, 25 August, 2022
      US politics & policy
      Biden’s student debt cancellation triggers ‘inflationary fire’ fears

      President fulfils campaign pledge by wiping out billions in loan payments but economists worry it will stoke price rises

      Students at the University of California, Berkeley
    • Wednesday, 24 August, 2022
      US politics & policy
      Biden to cancel $10,000 of student debt for millions of Americans

      Move likely to please progressive Democrats but threatens to further stoke inflation

      Joe Biden walks on the lawn of the White House
    • Tuesday, 16 August, 2022
      Harvard Business School
      Harvard to offer free MBA tuition to lowest-income students

      Business school says it wants to remove ‘financial barriers’ as it looks to increase diversity among its learners

      A view of the campus of Harvard Business School in Cambridge, Massachusetts
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