The Fox Report: Student debt

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

by Patrick Chalmers 28th June 2013

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.