Student finances not ‘greatly’ affected by credit crunch
December 5, 2007 by admin
Filed under News, News-Banking
The National Union of Students (NUS) has announced that finances for this year’s intake of students were not ‘greatly’ affected by the credit crunch. 
A spokesman for the NUS said that there has been little evidence to suggest that banks are overly worried about students.
He said: “The risk outlay on students is that much less than for giving out a mortgage and they also take the view that a graduate is likely to be a customer for the rest of their life and they are willing to take that risk.”
HSBC’s adding of interest to graduate accounts is the only evidence of a tightening of credit he commented.
Statistics published by the Office for National Statistics show that the maximum amounts available to new students in 2007-8 are 76 to 85 per cent higher than they were ten years ago.
The NUS is a voluntary membership organisation comprised from student representative organisations in colleges and universities from across the UK and Northern Ireland.
