It used to be £15K when you had to start repaying

It used to be £15K when you had to start repaying

 

So what's the big deal, then? Sounds like a "no-risk" gamble. If you get a university place, you don't have to fork out any money up front, and the only time you will have to pay anything is if you are fortunate enough to get a reasonably-paid job.

If for any reason you lose that job, the repayments will be suspended until you get another reaonably-paid job.

Am I missing something?:confused:

Interest rates :P

 

Even if you don't earn enough to pay the loan back, you will still be charged interest on it. So higher loan + higher pay-back threshold = more interest

Interest rates :P

 

Even if you don't earn enough to pay the loan back, you will still be charged interest on it. So higher loan + higher pay-back threshold = more interest

 

But surely that interest will only be "virtual" unless you actually earn enough to become liable for repayments in the first place?:confused:

You will still be earning interest and unless you don't earn above the threshold in the first 25 years (I believe) than it won't count as the entire loan gets written off.

 

But say you don't earn enough for 10 years, only to get a promotion pushing you over the limit, than you will have to pay back not only the loan, but 10 years worth of interest as well.

You will still be earning interest and unless you don't earn above the threshold in the first 25 years (I believe) than it won't count as the entire loan gets written off.

 

But say you don't earn enough for 10 years, only to get a promotion pushing you over the limit, than you will have to pay back not only the loan, but 10 years worth of interest as well.

 

Maybe so, but surely that still wouldn't mean the monthly repayments would be significantly higher?:dozey:

In that situation, I reckon you would have to decide whether it was worth getting promoted or not.;)

 

Shouldn't people be grateful they are in the fortunate position of having access to higher education in the first place?

In some countries you would have no chance whatsoever.

I think they are all selfish bastards the lot of them. As a student myself in Scotland it may be easy for me to say as I don't pay tuition fees (I do however recieve loans which I have to start paying back when I get a job of £15000 and over) but the situation is not nearly as radically bad as it seems. Somehow a lot of those thick ****s in the protest yesterday think they have to start paying £9000 immediately but that is merely a cap. They also don't get the fact that they only start

 

But when the Labour government INTRODUCED these fees a few years ago there was no protests. But then I guess it's ok to start protesting violently whenever the 'evil, wicked' Tories are in power. It's incredible how left wing propaganda can get away with this incredibly out of date assumption. Is the country seriously that thick to realise?

I think they are all selfish bastards the lot of them. As a student myself in Scotland it may be easy for me to say as I don't pay tuition fees (I do however recieve loans which I have to start paying back when I get a job of £15000 and over) but the situation is not nearly as radically bad as it seems. Somehow a lot of those thick ****s in the protest yesterday think they have to start paying £9000 immediately but that is merely a cap. They also don't get the fact that they only start

 

But when the Labour government INTRODUCED these fees a few years ago there was no protests. But then I guess it's ok to start protesting violently whenever the 'evil, wicked' Tories are in power. It's incredible how left wing propaganda can get away with this incredibly out of date assumption. Is the country seriously that thick to realise?

 

Sadly, that appears to be the case.:(

Some people just don't realise how lucky they are to live in a country where they can get a good education and don't have to worry about where their next meal is coming from.

 

I can understand people who voted LibDem being angry that the party reneged on its pledge to scrap the fees altogether, but other than that............... :dozey:

Did one of these suspects attack Camilla during tuition fees riots?

 

 

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Scotland Yard last night issued a ‘rogues’ gallery’ of 14 demonstrators being hunted over the student riots.

At least one of them may have been involved in the attack on the Royal Rolls-Royce during which the Duchess of Cornwall was prodded in the ribs with a stick through an open window.

A Scotland Yard source said last night: ‘The images released are in relation to several incidents, including the attack on Charles and Camilla.’

 

 

'Rogues' gallery: Police are looking for these 14 men following last week's riot

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Metropolitan Police refused to say which of those pictured was involved in a particular incident, but senior sources said officers were ‘very keen’ to identify all 14.

It is understood anarchists from Italy, Germany, Spain and Latvia were among the militants who brought mayhem to Central London.

 

 

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Others came from as far away as Argentina, arrived in London at least a week before the protest and were involved in planning the attacks on the Treasury and the Palace of Westminster, The Mail on Sunday has learned.

 

Some are thought to belong to an anarchist group called Black Bloc, which originated in Holland and Germany, and has taken part in riots all over the world.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mail on Sunday journalists covering the protest saw a Latvian man break off a pole from metal fencing before hurling it at police in Parliament Square.

 

A group of Black Bloc members said they were from Latvia and had come with a rucksack full of paint bombs and smoke grenades.

One man calling himself Wilf, who said he was from Dresden, was seen to throw a brick and a metal sign at police in Whitehall.

 

 

 

Another demonstrator, who said he was from Turin and lived in a squat in London, said: ‘I’m here to help the students and the people who are poor. I’ve been photographed by the police but I’m immune to it.

 

'The students here aren’t really tough. I saw one of them hitting the police. He dropped his keys on the floor and then started asking the police nicely whether he could have them back.’

 

Frightened: Prince Charles and Camilla being attacked by the mob. Police believe one of the 14 wanted men may be behind the terror on Thursday night

 

The foreign revolutionaries were joined by hooligans and radicals from groups such as Anti Cuts Action, Students for Climate Change and a Trotskyist alliance called Counterfire.

 

Detectives are now examining hours of CCTV and police footage to trace suspects. The demonstration resulted in 34 arrests.

 

• Anyone who can identify any of these faces is asked to contact the police on 020 8358 0100.
  

Fucking hell what a bunch of ugly ****s.

Fucking hell what a bunch of ugly ****s.

 

Presumably you don't mean Charles and Camilla....................... :P