Education and Skills written question – answered at on 18 April 2006.
Peter Law
Independent, Blaenau Gwent
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what assessment she has made of the impact of interest payable on unpaid student loans on the ability of graduates to repay loans.
Bill Rammell
Minister of State (Lifelong Learning, Further and Higher Education), Department for Education and Skills
Interest is only charged on student loans in line with inflation, which means no borrower pays back more in real terms than the value of the loan they took out. Borrowers repay loans at a fixed percentage of salary once their earnings reach the repayment threshold so fluctuations in the interest rate do not affect the monthly repayment amount.
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Ken Brookman
Posted on 22 Apr 2006 11:17 am (Report this annotation)
This informationis provided to students at universities so they SHOULD know these facts. Perhaps little Dai is thinking of getting more education skills and thinks university is the place for him???