I saw this letter in The Times and thought it deserved wider publicity (and it made me glad my children will not have student loans).
Does anyone know what the changes are?
"State loan sharks
The chancellor is to make existing student borrowers pay more by changing the terms of loans they have already taken
Sir, The government ignored warnings that university tuition fee repayments would be much lower than claimed. In his autumn statement the chancellor confirmed proposals to make existing borrowers pay more by changing the terms of loans that they have already taken. It is not worthy of any government, having actively persuaded students to take loans, retrospectively to change the advertised terms to compensate for its mistakes, in the process damaging trust between governments and young citizens.
Why should anybody trust future agreements if governments may break them at will? University leaders have stayed silent; worse, their representative body has actually supported the proposal. A recent memorial seminar for Professor Sir David Watson — the greatest university leader of his generation — reminded us by his example of the importance of ethical leadership. Is that something we can no longer expect from our vice-chancellors or governments?
Bahram Bekhradnia (President, Higher Education Policy Institute)
Sir Peter Scott (UCL Institute of Education and former Vice Chancellor Kingston University)
Professor Brenda Gourley (former Vice Chancellor Open University)
Professor Caroline Gipps (former Vice Chancellor University of Wolverhampton)
Professor Ingrid Lunt (former Vice-Principal, Green Templeton College, Oxford)
Professor Rob Cuthbert (former Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of the West of England)
Professor Claire Callender (UCL Institute of Education)
Dr Paul Temple (UCL Institute of Education)
Professor Gareth Parry (University of Sheffield) Professor Ronald Barnett (UCL Institute of Education)
Professor Paul Ashwin (Lancaster University) Professor Mary Henkel Professor Vaneeta D’Andrea (University of the Arts London)
Professor Maria Slowey (Dublin City University)
Dr William Locke (UCL Institute of Education)
Dr Lesley Gourlay (UCL Institute of Education)
Mary Claire Halvorson (Goldsmiths University of London)
Harinder Lawley (Diversity Works)
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DeoGratias · 28/11/2015 11:05
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