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• Student debt

  The Daily Telegraph (registration required) reports that life is becoming unbearable for British university students. Average student debt has doubled since Labour came to power. ...

• Paying the piper

  Michelle Henery has fun with the hysterical opposition to university fees in Britain. Up to a trifling £3,000 a year will be sought. If students ...

• Britain faces reality in higher

  Britain faces reality in higher education And about time, too. In today's Guardian (strictly speaking, the Sunday version of the Guardian is called the Observer, ...

• Student loans

  The Guardian describes Clive Stafford Smith as a famous opponent of the death penalty in the US. But apparently what really gets him worked up ...

• The rich get richer . . .

  The Irish government dropped a proposal to reintroduce tuition fees at the university level, that would have replaced free fees with a loan scheme. (Registration ...

• Knocked about

  No, not another academic war story. Meryl Yourish describes the thrills of driving through a hurricane. Not long after I moved to Ireland, I rented ...

• Government as mother hen

  Back in 2001, the Irish government produced a bizarre program called the Special Saving Incentive Scheme. You could save up to €254 per month in ...

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