{"id":85353,"date":"2026-02-21T21:00:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T21:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=85353"},"modified":"2026-02-21T21:00:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T21:00:44","slug":"university-dropouts-owe-12bn-in-student-loans-after-being-pushed-into-degrees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/21\/university-dropouts-owe-12bn-in-student-loans-after-being-pushed-into-degrees\/","title":{"rendered":"University dropouts owe \u00a312bn in student loans after being &#8216;pushed&#8217; into degrees"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-65757\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/students-cost-of-living-300x182.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/students-cost-of-living-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/students-cost-of-living-360x218.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/students-cost-of-living.jpg 634w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>University students who dropped out of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/topic\/universities?srsltid=AfmBOornNyNLH0CjpGriVMfDbtVapWo880zSdl7vfbrHFKt9MGeffR5u\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">their courses<\/a>\u00a0owe more than \u00a312bn in student loan debt, with figures obtained by\u00a0<em>The i Paper\u00a0<\/em>showing the amount is\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/university-dropouts-owe-12bn-in-student-loans-after-being-pushed-into-degrees\/ar-AA1WJL14?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&amp;cvid=12b27d6c2218447b8334e2c98d7fafb7&amp;ei=17\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>University students who dropped out of\u00a0their courses\u00a0owe more than \u00a312bn in student loan debt, with figures obtained by\u00a0The i Paper\u00a0showing the amount&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85353","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cost-of-living-crisis"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Students-fees.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85354,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85353\/revisions\/85354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}