{"id":856473,"date":"2026-03-28T17:05:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T17:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/856473\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T17:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T17:05:13","slug":"how-university-is-leaving-many-young-people-trapped-in-debt-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/856473\/","title":{"rendered":"How university is leaving many young people trapped in debt | UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of students are facing a debt of more than \u00a350,000 &#8211; with some left owing over \u00a3100,000 &#8211; after studying at universities across England.<\/p>\n<p>And for those unable to keep up with the interest, the debt keeps climbing.<\/p>\n<p>In our latest episode of Sky News Explains, Olive Enokido-Lineham takes a forensic look at the reality facing a generation trapped in debt from student loans and asks where does the money go?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch the full episode at the top of this article.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Before <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/why-context-matters-sky-news-explains-youtube-series-relaunches-13509123\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">re-launching Sky News Explains<\/a><\/strong>, Olive specialised in verification and open-source investigations (OSINT). Her stories include investigations into the war in Gaza, to verifying videos from Ukraine and Syria.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/author\/olive-enokido-lineham-839\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Olive<\/a><\/strong> also produced the Sky News documentary Escaping Putin, which follows a Russian soldier who fled from the army.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Millions of students are facing a debt of more than \u00a350,000 &#8211; with some left owing over \u00a3100,000&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":856474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-856473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116307894323893918","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=856473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/856474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}