I have seen some confusions recently on twitter regarding university finances. Here are four recommendations: Avoid using sector aggregate figures to make your argumentsThe sector is very uneven ...
https://andrewmcgettigan.org/2022/05/01/some-finance-recommendations-for-activists/
A short article for History UK on recent changes to student loan repayment terms and what happens as inflation continues to erode the value of the undergraduate tuition fee.
https://andrewmcgettigan.org/2022/05/01/article-for-history-uk-on-whats-next-for-english-he/
With the Comprehensive Spending Review due next Wednesday, I thought it might be worth making some general points about student loans (in anticipation of potential changes to repayment thresholds...
https://andrewmcgettigan.org/2021/10/22/some-thoughts-on-fairness-and-student-loans/
Why that title? Well, the name seems to mislead people into thinking that the provider of student finance is a private institution, potentially making profit out of students, when it is in fact p...
https://andrewmcgettigan.org/2021/10/15/the-misleadingly-named-student-loans-company/
David Watson once wrote that the answer to the question as to whether universities were in the private or the public sector was “yes”. He suggested that universities most resembled BAE System...
https://andrewmcgettigan.org/2021/10/03/markets-and-suppliers-he-and-energy/
I have constructed the table above from forecasts for Total Managed Expenditure and Financial Transactions taken from the Office for Budgetary Responsibility’s latest publication (it accompanie...
Last week’s Supplementary Estimates contained another note of interest for student loans. Under “Note K: Contingent Liabilities” (p. 90) we find that a fifth contingent liability has been a...
The UK government published its “supplementary estimates” for 2020/21 yesterday. These allocate additional budgetary resources to departments. Education has been given an extra £13.531 billi...
Page 221 of the Department for Education’s 2019/20 financial statement contains the note reproduced above. The sale programme for “pre-2012” student loans was cancelled in March. But DfE lo...
Given the relative absence of higher education from yesterday’s Autumn Statement, I turned my attention to the Department for Education’s 2019/20 annual accounts, which were published earlier...
https://andrewmcgettigan.org/2020/11/26/11-billion-of-supplements-used-for-loans/