A-level students voice fears of university debt

A graduate tax is to be proposed by the Business Secretary Vince Cable, in a keynote speech on the future funding of higher education.

This would mean students in England would repay the costs of going to university through taxation once they began working.

A review of tuition fees and student finance is due to report in the autumn.

Students at Great Barr School in Birmingham have talked about their fears of future debt, as they prepare to embark on a university career.