CHAIR of Parliament’s Public Administration and Appropriations Committee (PAAC) Peter Bunting has urged the Students’ Loan Bureau (SLB) to use its loan repayment data to better guide students away from degree programmes that consistently leave graduates unable to service their loans.

He argued that the agency has a responsibility to steer prospective borrowers away from what he described as “obsolete degrees”.

The proposal emerged during the PAAC’s examination of the SLB, where lawmakers broadened their scrutiny of student financing to include whether some tertiary programmes are adequately preparing graduates for today’s labour market.