Foreign Students Leaving UK With Debts

Up to 70% of students from other European Union countries are failing to repay student loans they took out while at UK universities. The Student Loans Company says 2,240 students should have begun repayments but 1,580 are not accounted for. A Spanish student said she had heard nothing five years after graduating. The government says the SLC is doing what it can to track people down. Take-up of the entitlement is growing fast, with 46,000 now having borrowed £130m. Students from EU countries have been eligible for low interest loans from the British taxpayer to pay for their tuition fees since 2006.