When I studied at Aston Business School in 2010-2012 they offered Masters Degree courses on Sharia Finance, they were actually well attended compared to the course I did although Finance & Law of Finance isn’t most people’s cup of tea. That said everyone makes their own choices according to their beliefs and values. As one response rightly said Student Loans are actually a Graduate Tax as only 30% of people will ever pay their loans back in full based on the initial research.
What I think is terrible is accruing interest at 6.1% when you can still get a mortgage for <2% at the moment. The government can borrow money for 10 years at about 1.3% so go figure.
I started University in 1991 when Student Loans were first introduced, but I also worked part-time and fortunately managed to pay it back within four years. I am strong believer that University isn’t for everyone and things started to go wrong when the Labour government set a goal for 50% of young people to go to University.
When I became a manager in IT in a large multinational the quality of our undergraduate sandwich students was variable to say the least, many lacked basic language and communication skills. I don’t blame the students as much as the quality and appropriateness of the teaching.