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We’ll be able to do this all over again. Chris Ison/PA Wire

Student loans should be for life, say universities

Gemma Ware, The Conversation

Students should be given a lifetime loan allocation that they can use for different undergraduate and postgraduate courses, according to new proposals put forward by a group of universities. The University…
You’d need a lot of these to make a dent in our deficit. Images_of_Money

Raising top tax rate to 50p won’t raise much revenue

Paul Johnson, Institute for Fiscal Studies and David Phillips, Institute for Fiscal Studies

Ed Balls, the shadow chancellor, has announced that if elected a Labour government would return the rate of income tax payable on incomes above £150,000 to 50%. What would the effect of this be? The contention…

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