Student Finance Loans
Some thoughts on fairness and student loans
With the Comprehensive Spending Review due next Wednesday, I thought it might be worth making some general points about student […]
October 22, 2021
The misleadingly named Student Loans Company
Why that title? Well, the name seems to mislead people into thinking that the provider of student finance is a […]
October 15, 2021
Student loans: what counts as expenditure in national accounts
Economic & Fiscal Outlook, Office for Budgetary Responsibility (March 2021), adapted from Tables 3.14 & 3.26 I have constructed the […]
March 5, 2021
New contingent liability recorded against student loan sales
Last week’s Supplementary Estimates contained another note of interest for student loans. Under “Note K: Contingent Liabilities” (p. 90) we […]
March 3, 2021
DfE gets over £13.5billion extra for 2020/21 loan impairments
The UK government published its “supplementary estimates” for 2020/21 yesterday. These allocate additional budgetary resources to departments. Education has been […]
February 25, 2021
DfE committed to £200m of contracts for loan sale that’s not proceeding
Page 221 of the Department for Education’s 2019/20 financial statement contains the note reproduced above. The sale programme for “pre-2012” […]
December 3, 2020
£11 billion of “Supplements” used for loans
Given the relative absence of higher education from yesterday’s Autumn Statement, I turned my attention to the Department for Education’s […]
November 26, 2020