UK government to offer clearer guidance on student loans after repayment row

MPs have told the government it has a ‘moral obligation’ to reverse the threshold freeze to honour the terms under which the loans were sold to students. Photograph: Stanislav Halcin/Alamy

University students taking out student loans in England are to be warned that the terms and conditions could change so they are better informed about what they are signing up to, the government has said.

In July, a report by MPs said slideshows that compared student loan repayments to the cost of a mobile phone contract, and YouTube videos that did not mention the fact that conditions could be altered amounted to mis-selling by the government.