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The student loan privatisation must be resisted

Published on: 26 March 2014

Written by: Marienna Pope-Weidemann All articles by Marienna Pope-Weidemann

Selling off the student loans will actually cost the government more, as well as the students - but it'll be a...
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The spirit of youth discontent wasn't dead, just resting

Published on: 25 October 2013

Written by: Josiah Mortimer All articles by Josiah Mortimer

With lecturers on strike, student debt being sold off to the banks, the anger of the 2010 protests is about to make...
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The student loan book is being privatised. We shouldn't be naive about the implications.

Published on: 21 October 2013

Written by: Michael Chessum All articles by Michael Chessum

Plans to privatise student the student loan book threaten to become a de facto retrospective fee hike. Recent...

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