| Student Loan Interest Rates 'Should Rise' |
| 01/03/2007 |
| The subsidy costs the government around £1.2bn a year, which could be better spent on widening participation, a seminar was told. The idea was mooted this afternoon by Nicholas Barr, professor of public economics at the London School of Economics, and Alasdair Smith, the vice-chancellor of Sussex University. They were speaking at a seminar, 'The university funding system: is further reform inevitable?', organised by the Liberal Democrat thinktank Centre Forum. The Blogs on this site represent the individual views of their authors and do not necessarily reflect the policies or practices of the National Union of Students. All links in blogs will open in a new browser window. The permanent URL for this specific blog entry is: http://www.officeronline.co.uk/blogs/admissionimpossible/273977.aspx |
