Scrap student loan interest and extend payback time

How would a cap on the numbers going to university work, if someone wants to attend university why should they be disallowed because of a quota?

I think education is a human right and not a privilege, so going to university should be seen as a positive thing generally and should not be made exclusive because of tax costs.

Isn't taking out an interest based student loan haram? How do you think Allah would feel about you disobeying his command? Muslims are so quick to invoke god but not when doing so makes their lives harder lol.

How many years of education is a right? Can I decide to make a career out of doing degrees?

Do I have a right to study Make-up and Hair Design at the tax payer's expense? Is a course like that really worth over £9k a year, plus living expenses?

How do you decide what degree is worth studying then at the tax payers expense?

Isn't taking out an interest based student loan haram? How do you think Allah would feel about you disobeying his command? Muslims are so quick to invoke god but not when doing so makes their lives harder lol.

How many years of education is a right? Can I decide to make a career out of doing degrees?

Do I have a right to study Make-up and Hair Design at the tax payer's expense? Is a course like that really worth over £9k a year, plus living expenses?

There is not a great figure of people just doing degrees for the sake of it - you'd want to do a degree to get qualified to get into a career? You would need to finish eventually to start said career.

I don't think there is much weight to that argument, and in the current context students pay back their tuition fees, so studying is not at the taxpayer's expense.

There is not a great figure (sic) of people just doing degrees for the sake of it - you'd want to do a degree to get qualified to get into a career? You would need to finish eventually to start said career.

I don't think there is much weight to that argument, and in the current context students pay back their tuition fees, so studying is not at the taxpayer's expense.

1. Given the number of times people ask about the night life at some unheard of university, I suspect that many see university as paid partying;
2. There are people that just enjoy studying. Many, if they couldn't get a 'decent' job, would do another degree.


No, they don't / won't (all). If you never earn enough, you will pay nothing. If you don't earn enough, you'll have the debt written-off after 30 years. Basically, if you do a degree that doesn't allow you to earn well, the tax payer will foot most / all of the bill. This is the opposite to how it should be IMO.

You pay after 21K, which is a pretty low boundary, I think that if you have a degree regardless of the subject you would be earning that in a few years.

I'd support the scrapping of interest on student loans, but I'm not sure there's a real benefit to extending their duration.

The benefit (to the government) is that more students pay back more of their student loan as most people dont pay off a good chunk of the loan within the 30 years. This will likely apply even more now since the maintenance grant was replaced by more loan