The Fox Report: Student debt

Patrick Chalmers writes on the reality of debt as ‘the new normal’ for students

Debt is ‘the new normal’ for students | Photo: Photo: Garry Knight / flickr CC

While most Britons have cooled their credit habits since the financial crisis, students stand out as having done the reverse. It’s hardly their fault – with higher tuition fees, benefits cuts and poor job prospects in a struggling economy racking up the debts for eighteen- to thirty-year-olds generally.

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