Education Policy

Student-loan autopay discount tests repayment behaviour before July overhaul

Washington is offering federal student-loan borrowers a temporary interest-rate discount, but the policy is not only a relief measure. It is also an attempt to rebuild automated, on-time repayment before a wider federal repayment overhaul begins on 1 July.

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GCSE English loan plan would turn an entry standard into a finance test

A proposed English GCSE threshold for student loans would move a familiar admissions question into a harder place: access to finance. The Guardian reported on 17 June that ministers in England are considering making a pass in GCSE English a condition for tuition and maintenance loans, a change that would leave universities still able to admit some applicants while cutting off the public loan system that makes attendance possible for most of them.