Repayment thresholds for every plan, in one place
With the new tax year beginning, the Student Loans Company has published the full history of annual repayment thresholds for Plan 1, Plan 2, Plan 4 and postgraduate loans. Which plan you are on decides what you repay and when, most graduates do not know theirs, and it is printed on your annual statement. Student finance explained covers the difference.
Student Loans Company, 6 April
The terms and conditions you are actually agreeing to
The guide to student loan terms and conditions for 2026/27 and the current year has been updated. It is the document that says the government may change the terms after you borrow — the clause at the centre of this year’s argument — and it takes ten minutes to read before signing rather than three years afterwards.
Student Loans Company, 6 April
Billionaire gifts do not fix a sector
The Guardian’s editorial on a £190 million donation to Cambridge argues philanthropy widens the gap between a handful of elite institutions and everyone else, and that ministers need a plan for the sector as a whole. It lands in a month when universities elsewhere are cutting courses to close deficits.