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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Poppy Noor

Thursday briefing: ​Were a generation of students mis-sold the idea of a university degree?

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Some students will end up paying off double what they borrowed under plan 2. Photograph: aberCPC/Alamy

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In November, Rachel Reeves tucked a freeze to student loan repayment thresholds into her autumn budget, to little fanfare. The threshold, normally expected to rise each tax year to account for inflation, would rise this year, and then stay frozen until 2030, dragging people on lower salaries into repayments earlier.

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