The Student Voice

Personal finance should be as core to a high school education as Shakespeare and algebra.

The dire state of student finances come the new academic year has been highlighted in new research which has shown one in ten students will blow just over £2,700 of their loan in the first fortnight. The new research has come from the Institute of Inertia - a partnership between the University of Sheffield and comparethemarket.com - which also found just over half will spend their entire loan before the end of term, while just over a quarter will see themselves fall into their overdraft.