Student loans for tuition fees have been available since 2006/07. The following table includes English domiciled students and European students who studied at English higher education institutions. It shows the number of borrowers with outstanding tuition fee loans who were known to be resident overseas as at 31 March 2008.
Repayment status at 31 March 2008 Number of borrowers Under earnings threshold 1,070 Repaying as scheduled 170 Full repayment in progress 10 PGCE Moratorium On Income Contingent Repayment (ICR) Part of Debt — Fully repaid after entering repayment — Total 1,250 ‘—’ denotes negligible. Note: Repayment Status “PGCE Moratorium On ICR Part Of Debt” describes those Income Contingent (IC) borrowers who also have a mortgage style loan and have opted to repay this loan account first before commencing repaying their IC loan balance.
Following usual statistical practice, figures have been rounded to the nearest 10. It is not currently possible to disclose information for the period after 31st March 2008. This is because, following National Statistics protocol, the statistics are under embargo until the publication of the Student Loans Statistical First Release due in summer 2009.