Alternative Student Finance would work like a graduate tax — for Muslim students
The Department for Education’s latest position on Alternative Student Finance, the Sharia-compliant option promised for more than a decade, produces something close to a graduate tax: a takaful-style arrangement where payments are calculated as a share of income without interest. Wonkhe’s reading is that the government has reinvented the thing it rejected for everyone else, for one group of students. Student finance explained covers the mainstream system.
Between a rock, a hard place and student debt
A researcher examines the decisions students make when debt is the deciding factor — living at home, working long hours, choosing a nearer university over a better-matched course — and argues these are rational responses that the access statistics record as poorer outcomes. The class divide at university covers the same ground from the student side.