Students at UK universities were lent more than £3bn in the last fiscal year, it emerged today.

The admirer Loans performers said the total lent to all students during the pecuniary year 2006-07 for English, Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish universities was £3.4bn.

This compares with £2.9bn lent the one-time year.

Provisional figures for the duration of the trendy hypothetical year show English and other EU students studying at English universities were lent a of £2.9bn, of which £386.5m related to schooling fee loans.

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