Wonkhe SUs · Weekly webinars · 1 June 2026
Understanding student loans
Why student loans are about to matter more than ever – and what SUs need to understand about how they actually work. (Recorded in a previous year.)
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What we cover
- Why student loans will matter more in the year ahead
- The demographics and bond market forces squeezing university funding
- The six levers government can pull on loans and repayment
- How the Treasury designs the system to recoup money
- Why maintenance, not lifetime debt, is students' real concern
- How loans work across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland
Things to read
- How do students think about student loans?
- Student loans don't cover students' costs
- Understanding potential changes to student loans
- How England plans to cut back 'low value' degrees so it can reap more student loan repayments
- What is the Lifelong Loan Entitlement and how is it supposed to work?
- Will Sharia-compliant student finance ever happen?
- Twenty things that MPs won't know about when it comes to student finance
- How (and why) to respond to the Treasury Committee's call for evidence on student loans
- How to fix student loans
- The interest on my student loan is more than I'm paying back. Help!
- Never mind the interest rate, feel the repayment threshold
- Chancellors keep reaching for the same lever on student loans
- Student loan reform is coming. But not without a proper review
- Graduates are paying more and getting less
- The student loan system needs replacing not remixing