I can't be bothered to read through God knows how many pages of potentially OT comments so I don't know if anyone has already said this but I'll like to put in my $0.02.
I think this is a good idea in principle, and props to Bristol for doing it, however if I was a Bristol Uni student I couldn't help but feel a little bit shafted since we already get bombarded with debt and can hardly afford to live whilst studying... At the end of the day our debt doesn't all get paid back though so I guess I could deal with it. The ones who are really getting the *****y end of the stick are the international students who pay stupid fees on top of ours and don't get loans to help them out.