Budget 2016: Time to get tough on student loans
OPINION: The scheme lacks accountability by borrowers and incentives to pay up.
If I were to borrow from the vernacular of today’s youth to describe the state of the student loan scheme, the words “epic fail” spring to mind.
Here we are, over two decades down the track, and more than $14 billion in the red. The burden the scheme is placing on our fiscal interests is
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Robyn Jamieson
Mon, 18 Apr 2016
Mon, 18 Apr 2016
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Budget 2016: Time to get tough on student loans
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