As if the student loan system wasn’t crushing young people enough, students are now being told they have to pay back maintenance loans and childcare grants that were mis-sold.

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As a teacher at a university and a 27-year-old with 100k in student debt, I see the university system buckling under a funding system that was always doomed to fail.

The news today once again places the responsibility on the individual student, both in terms of paying back the loan and taking accountability for a mistake that they did not make. This was a mistake made solely by the SLC in granting full-time maintenance loans to weekend students, but the real mistake here is the student loan system as a whole.

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