FT: Let universities buy debt, says David Willetts
Published on July 29, 2014
University Alliance’s response to David Willetts’ proposals that universities get the opportunity to buy the debt that their graduates owe.
Our response was featured in the online and print editions of the FT: “Allowing a small number of the wealthiest universities to benefit from buying their loan book rewards the fact that they take the highest achieving students, from the wealthiest backgrounds, that go on to be the highest earners”.
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