Gordon Marsden MP, Labour’s Shadow Universities Minister, commenting on the
University and College Union (UCU) report into student loan repayments, said:
“The Tories have tripled tuition fees, abolished maintenance
grants for poorer students and frozen the repayment threshold, hitting
graduates on the lowest incomes. This report confirms yet again that the impact
has been deeply unfair and it is getting harder and harder for ordinary young
people to access higher education.
“It is professions such as nurses and midwives that are being hit
the hardest, and if the NHS can’t recruit the staff it needs then we will all
be worse off as a result.
“The Government needs to decide if they think it is fair that the
debt burden should fall so heavily on the very people our society relies so
heavily on.”
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