• 31% of students rely on overdrafts, credit cards and payday loans

    Future Finance, a specialist student loans company, has raised concerns surrounding students’ abilities to finance their educations. The survey, which questioned 1,000 full-time students, said that 31% have had to use credit cards, payday loans and overdrafts to finance their university experience. “The survey also showed that 70% said their...
  • NUS urges students to “age themselves” in protest against student debt

    As part of its #CutTheCosts week, the NUS has encouraged students to age themselves to show MPs how long student debts could take to pay off. Students have been urged to take a photograph of themselves, use the editing software on the AgingBooth app to age their faces and send...