Student loan reform: Weighing the trade-offs (opens in new tab)

Student loans have become a huge political issue this year, but how has this become such a hot political topic? These repayments are beginning to bite hard for a generation of graduates hit by changes introduced 15 years ago. In the same way that nominal wage growth combined with income threshold freezes has dragged more workers into higher tax bands, it has also dragged more and more of earned income above the student loan repayment thresholds. This means that student loan deductions are tak...