Rates can go down as well as up, it seems for student loans. Universities UK is modelling options to help inform the discussion.
Yesterday, minister for universities and science Jo Johnson was in Washington DC to sign the first ever UK-US Science and Technology Agreement. Our colleagues over at Research Fortnight have the skinny on what the minister has been up to.
Johnson will be flying home to an increasingly difficult environment for universities. It seems as if every media outlet has higher education in its sights at the moment and the summer of discontent over tuition fees and executive pay is turning into an autumn chill.
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