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'Deeply misleading' school talks compared student loans to £30 phone contracts

BBC News·@Bbc·2 months ago
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The government compared student loan repayments to a £30-a-month phone contract in a presentation to teenagers a decade ago, BBC News has discovered. The presentation was part of a series of "student finance tours" delivered to thousands of schools between 2011 and 2017, by graduates who were asked to speak to pupils and parents on the then-government's behalf. The graduates were told to "avoid words [or] phrases like debt", with one former presenter now telling the BBC he felt like he had "sold his soul to the devil". The Department for Education (DfE) said the presentations were delivered under previous governments, and that current ministers had focused on making the system fairer. The National Union of Students said the script for the presentation about Plan 2 loans - which have been heavily criticised this year over their high interest rates and changes to the repayment thresholds - had "aged poorly" and was "deeply misleading".…

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