University Alliance responds to the Autumn Statement 2014
…subsidy on existing student loans is too high: for every £1 the government gives out in student loans, they will only get 55p back. University Alliance warns that this is creating an unsustainable funding system that could result in cuts to student places or underinvestment in high quality programmes. “This is why we developed our Higher Education Loan Programme (HELP) proposals earlier this year to facilitate universal loans for the first time,…