Student Loans – Pair quit after student loans shambles
TWO top officials at the Student Loans Company quit today after a damning report into this autumn’s loan and grants delays, it was announced today.
Both Wallace Gray, the Student Loans Company’s (SLC) ICT director, and Martin Herbert, marketing and customer services director, have resigned, the firm said today.
But SLC chief executive Ralph Seymour-Jackson, who faced calls to resign in the wake of the fiasco, will remain in post.
Tens of thousands of students faced delays to their loan and grant payments this year as the SLC struggled to keep up with demand.
The company has its English headquarters in Darlington.
A damning report into the delays, published earlier this month, found there had been conspicuous failures which had had a far-reaching impact on students.
In a statement announcing the resignations today, John Goodfellow, chair of the SLC board offered his apologies for the problems again and said there would be a restructuring of the senior management team.
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