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from todays Times:

Student medics could owe £64,000 : BMA

Medical students could face debts of up to £64,000 under the Government's controversial plans to introduce university top-up fees, the British Medical Association warned. The BMA's medical students committee calculated the potential effects of variable fees on levels of student debt among those taking courses of five or six years to become a doctor. They found that a medical student in London whose parents earned £30,000 between them could leave university owing up to £64,661 - 44% higher than debts currently and three times the basic salary of a first year doctor.