Student Finance
Is it a loan or a tax? It wasn’t supposed to be either
New polling from Public First gives us a granular recent picture of public attitudes to the student loan system. It […]
March 6, 2026
1000 days later, will Labour’s woes on student loans have changed?
The date is March 1st, 2029. Keir Starmer hangs on, convinced he’ll turn things around at the last minute. Torsten […]
March 1, 2026
If the graduate premium is falling, supply-side tinkering won’t bring it back
It’s not hard to find arguments that suggest that the UK has too many graduates. And underneath articles of that […]
February 23, 2026
The walls are closing in on our doomed student loan system
Exciting times! HM Treasury has published its Supplementary Estimates for 2025-26. These are the documents through which government departments ask […]
February 11, 2026
Maybe a graduate tax wasn’t such a bad idea after all
The student loans story rumbles on. Today’s “one of the few stories still running alongside the Mandelson scandal” intervention comes […]
February 5, 2026