The National Union of Students has launched an initiative to educate students about finance, as Edinburgh University Students’ Association rounds up its Money Week. NUS collaborated with Credit Action, a debt and finance charity, to help s...
Wed 09 Feb 2011 by Sarah Vesty | Read more »
Student finance in the UK is built on four planks: commercial credit, part time work, parental funding, and government support. The first three are beginning to crack. Commercial loans should never have been a key part of our student funding model. Pe...
Mon 27 Apr 2009 by Adam Ramsay | Read more »
There are some bruised egos among the ranks of Britain's economic commentators, as the global financial crisis lurches from one tumultuous stage to the next. “What I think is of little importance,” groaned Anatole Kaletsky in The Times a fe...
Mon 09 Mar 2009 by Simon Mundy | Read more »
What do Shunsuke Nakamura, Jenson Button and the British Olympic table tennis squad have in common? The answer is that their sporting futures are very much in the balance at present, and all for precisely the same reason: the global financial crisis ha...
Tue 09 Dec 2008 by Graham Mackay | Read more »