Yeah, it's about the only good thing in the whole loan fiasco. The government recently tripled the maximum amount that a university can charge for tuition fees and although I luckily started uni a year before that (so pay the old rates), everyone a year younger than me is getting shafted. I'm sure I read somewhere that if we move out of the country permanently, our loan repayments are cancelled. Woo!

I guess compared to the States (not sure about Canada), we do have a better deal, in that the maximum any uni can charge you (as a home student) is ~£3000/year, so you won't pay more for an education from, say, Oxford, as opposed to Grimsby Polytechnic, as long as you have the skillz to get in.

The UK is just superior to the US in general! It's that simple.