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P-03-296 Unfair Proposals on Student Loans

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Meeting: 24/01/2012 - Petitions Committee - Fourth Assembly (Item 3)

3 P-03-296 Unfair Proposals on Student Loans

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The Committee agreed to forward the Minister’s letter to the petitioners for comment, with a view to closing the petition if they are content.

 


Meeting: 12/07/2011 - Petitions Committee - Fourth Assembly (Item 3)

3 P-03-296 Unfair Proposals on Student Loans

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The Committee considered an update to this petition.

 

Action

·         The Committee agreed to write to the Minister for Education and Skills seeking more detail on the variable rates of interest that graduates will be charged on their student loans and on the widening access clauses for those institutions that wish to charge higher-level fee, and to ask how HE institutions’ new fee plans will impact on the concerns raised by the petition.