4/02/2015

UK: Green Party wants to write off student loan debts


The Green Party wants to write off all “outstanding debts” on student loans, a figure that currently amounts to £2.6 billion.

The Greens passed a series of policies on higher education at their conference last month, also including goals to scrap the National Student Survey and the research excellence framework.

Several policies – including those to cap vice-chancellors’ pay and scrap the REF and NSS – are drawn from a 2011 “manifesto” published in response to the higher education White Paper by Michael Bailey, senior lecturer in sociology at the University of Essex, and Des Freedman, professor of media and communication studies at Goldsmiths, University of London.

The party is targeting the votes of students, and one of its signature policies – confirmed but yet to be costed – is to abolish tuition fees and directly fund higher education through public spending.

timeshighereducation.co.uk

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