A university degree doesn’t always mean higher earnings further down the line. In other wildly unsurprising news, England is rainy, and Taylor Swift is quite popular.

According to a new breakdown of figures by The Times, the Government is sitting on around £260bn in student loan debt, much of which seems unlikely to ever be paid back.

While the numbers across the board look pretty glum if you’re totting up the national finances – the average student owes £26,000 – they do break down along clear lines: students from high-performing universities are more likely to have paid off their loans than those who studied at low-performing ones.

Frankly, the whole thing makes me roll my eyes, because the debt now being shouldered by the........

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