Real NET Salary of typical workers in EU28 - 2016

but for the last time, that has nothing to do with student loans.

Of course, people's choices are shaped by the frameworks institutions put up. By heavily subsidizing a private loan system you've given everybody the incentive to run off to college and care about the costs later, you yourself just a post ago pointed out the very favorable conditions and the lower attendance rate in Scotland.

A public, tax funded system like in Germany or Denmark or wherever has the strong incentive to immediately reduce costs. They simply have way less money to spend as a result of getting their budget out of the public purse.

This was the whole idea of the switch in the UK system. To get everybody into college by rapidly expanding the capital available to the universities, because the UK like no other European country bought into the hype of the 'knowledge economy' and wanted to ship everybody into the cities

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