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The £20 billion student debt shambles that will cost the taxpayer
23 February 2015
Ben Glaze writing for the Daily Mirror cites Sutton Trust research on student debt in an article on tuition fee loans.
David Cameron and Nick Clegg’s decision to hike university fees will give taxpayers a £20billion-a-year bill because graduates cannot afford to pay back their huge loans.
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A study last year by the Institute for Fiscal Studies for education charity the Sutton Trust revealed youngsters were leaving university with an average debt of £44,000 – almost double that of graduates who left before the £9,000 fees came in.
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