If I move abroad do I still have to pay off my student loan?

A_fiend_for_life

The comment I was making was regarding student life in the 70's not the here and now.:) Having been a student I understand the amount of misconception re students.

I agree. I understand how difficult it is and how much tougher it must be. Especially once you graduate with an even bigger debt. I graduated 8 years ago and picked up student loan debts of 8 k I thought that was bad. Now I am reading folk are coming away with 20 to 25k debts I think it is appalling the way the system has been changed. Especially the removal of the grant and introduction of tuition fees. Hope you understand I am by no means criticizing students.:)

The government is saving money in terms of tuition fees and in terms of grants for living.
What I'd like to know though is where on earth all that money the government saved went to!? We don't hear much about that.

Halls are a complete rip off they cost more than shared accommodation in the vicinity. Can't comment on London mind.

The problem arose because Tony Blair wanted to get 50% of school leavers to go into higher education. We as students campaigned against the introduction of tuition fees, the warnings were that student debt would rise to 20k and many students thought it was scare mongering. They'll be thinking differently once their children reach university. As perhaps will many more people who have misconceptions regarding students.

GlasweJen

do you have to pay off your loan? of course not!

You just get to jump the country with high taxes (and i'm sure that the subsidised education and low interest loan are nothing to do with taxes) and live your life in America where you'll soon find out why low tax = no public services. Did you know that they don't get uni education there? they have to pay for that themselves *gasp*

The grass is always greener...... OP my advice to you is to wake up and smell the coffee, of course you have to pay back your loan, you borrowed it so you should bloody well take responsibility and return it when you longer need it.

The_One_Who

A_fiend_for_life wrote: »

The comment I was making was regarding student life in the 70's not the here and now.:) Having been a student I understand the amount of misconception re students.

I agree. I understand how difficult it is and how much tougher it must be. Especially once you graduate with an even bigger debt. I graduated 8 years ago and picked up student loan debts of 8 k I thought that was bad. Now I am reading folk are coming away with 20 to 25k debts I think it is appalling the way the system has been changed. Especially the removal of the grant and introduction of tuition fees. Hope you understand I am by no means criticizing students.:)

The government is saving money in terms of tuition fees and in terms of grants for living.
What I'd like to know though is where on earth all that money the government saved went to!? We don't hear much about that.

Halls are a complete rip off they cost more than shared accommodation in the vicinity. Can't comment on London mind.

The problem arose because Tony Blair wanted to get 50% of school leavers to go into higher education. We as students campaigned against the introduction of tuition fees, the warnings were that student debt would rise to 20k and many students thought it was scare mongering. They'll be thinking differently once their children reach university. As perhaps will many more people who have misconceptions regarding students.

I'm a current student (granted, in Scotland so no tuition fees), but I don't think the current system is too bad. There are still grants and bursaries available to those who can get them and the loan is in favourable terms. What would people do if there was no such student support? Higher, and even further education, would be only for the upper echelons of society.

"We as students campaigned against the introduction of tuition fees"? Weren't NUS (who I despise) all for them?

A_fiend_for_life

No the NUS led the campaign against tuition fees arguing that tuition fees would result in graduates with £20k worth of debt.

If graduates in England, Wales and NI are coming away with debts 2 to 3 times my own I think it is a huge burden. Not sure what the current state of play is re tuition fees but the last I heard was 3k? per annum. It also potentially puts off folk from poorer backgrounds too.