Has anyone else been chased by Allied International Credit? They are chasing me for a Northern Rock loan which I have been challenging its UE since Jan 09. This is the third or fourth DCA they have tried now. However, I have only received two letters but the telephone calls are relentless!!! How long...

Debt buyers CarVal Investors and Arrow Global have purchased a portfolio of securitised assets from Nationwide in a deal believed to be the first of its kind. The two firms, alongside JRC Consult Ltd, have purchased the remaining assets of a portfolio of “old-style” securitised student loans from...

Most Ph.D. students spend their days reading esoteric books and stressing out about the tenure-track job market. Thomas Herndon, a 28-year-old economics grad student at UMass Amherst, just used part of his spring semester to shake the intellectual foundation of the global austerity movement.
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University bans payday loan companies

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 27th February 2013 18:21.

*Payday loan companies have been banned from a University campus as as there are fears students are turning to prostitution to pay off their...

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Students warned not to get involved in money laundering

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 26th February 2013 10:09.

Fraud experts are warning that hundreds of thousands of people are in danger of being duped into laundering money for fraudsters. They are being......

Don't know if anyone can point me in the right direction for this one........

Son has met a girl online, she came for summer work and has stayed with son! She took a break from her biochemistry degree and has now gained a place to study at a Welsh uni. She can have loans for tuition fees...

Hi everyone

I posted this in the students forum on my thread but thought someone might benefit from the freebies section.

I don't know when this is coming in and I'm not sure if you can get actual qualifications however if you want to learn about something new then it could...

Just announced


Esther McVey MP
Minister for Disabled People
Oral statement on Personal Independence Payment
House of Commons
Reform

The Government is committed to enabling disabled people to fulfil their potential and play a full role...

Think it's time for me to start looking elsewhere for another job.....

I had students from Hell today; half of them not the slightest bit interested in the vocational course that my new tw@t of a boss has put them on and most are a level below what the course is anyway..... which is nothing...

Hi Peeps

Just wondered if there any other fellow OU students out there?

I've been with them on and off for 12 years now (money permitting) and am currently studying an introduction to business B120 which is OK but I probably wouldn't take this course again given the choice....

Just worked out what we take from business each month and its less than what we would recieve from jsa and mortgage help.

One big problem we have here is that for the past few years we haven't paid NIC so would we qualify for any help ?

We haven't decided to close the business...

I have been reading up on CRAs one thing I noticed was that equifax say linked address are places you have lived.


What is a linked address?

The reason why i find this interesting is because i have a number off linked address that i have never lived at i gave the...

Does anyone know anything about the Zinc group, got a phone call today from them and after listening to a broad glaswegian accent about 10 times I worked out who they were.
When will they learn to speak English

Anyway just wondering which of my many they might be...

Student loans: No early repayment penalty, Cable says

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 24th February 2012 10:35.

There will be no extra charge on students who want to pay back their loans early after they graduate, Business Secretary Vince Cable has confirmed.......

I am trying to help someone who has taken on numerous Payday Loans. Unfortunately, I know little about them, but want to give the best help possible.

What are the best ways to escape the downward spiral of not being able to afford monthly payments and having to get another loan to cover...