Students Stressed By Loan Confusion

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Students stressed by loan confusion

Published on August 24, 2007

Delay in approvals blamed for one suicide, others resorting to sex work

Sudden changes in the government student-loan programme are causing confusion and worry, especially among cash-strapped students who are afraid for their educational future.

"I have yet to get money from the loan. Don't they see that one student has already committed suicide and several others have had to offer sexual services to continue their education?" read a comment on the Office of the Student Loan Fund (www.studentloan.or.th)

The student added: "Don't they know that we, children of poor farmers, really can't wait?"

Earlier this year, a fourth-year student at the Nakhon Si Thammarat Rajabhat University took her own life. Friends believe uncertainty about her educational loan drove her to suicide.

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Chularat Saengpassa

The Nation

[Ijustwannateach]

Unemployed students are some of the most vulnerable to economic swings... I wish 'em luck until things get better again.

[PeaceBlondie]

Sometimes the government acts like an unemployed student.

[Ijustwannateach]