Student Loans

Muslim students in England will be able to get alternative student finance acceptable under Sharia law the Government has confirmed, although this will not be available until 2016 at the earliest.

Graduates will pay less interest on their student loans from September, but fewer people with a pre-1998 mortgage style loan will qualify to defer theirs as the minimum earnings threshold needed to do so is falling.

If you're one of the 58,000 former students who received the wrong correspondence about their loans, look out for packs containing the right paperwork coming in the post.

A Government minister has told the Student Loans Company not to use "misleading tactics" to collect debt, after it was revealed the firm sent letters to over 300,000 graduates purporting to be from a debt collection firm.

If you're heading to university this autumn, you should apply for loans and grants NOW, as the deadline's as early as this Friday for some students.

Graduates are likely to see a fall in the amount of interest they pay on their student loans from September.

Erudio Student Loans has admitted over 500 people have mistakenly had money taken from their accounts – not the 50 it formerly said. All those affected have been refunded, but if you've had money taken and haven't had it back, let us know.

58,000 former students with loans from the 1990s are getting refunds or having money wiped from their debts after a Student Loans Company (SLC) paperwork blunder.