Thousands of students from European countries who took out loans worth £893 million to fund degrees in UK universities have vanished without repaying a penny.
Latest figures from the Government-owned Student Loans Company (SLC) show that it is currently trying to track down the whereabouts of about 42,000 former undergraduates.
Officials have been forced to establish links with authorities across the EU in an effort to find the missing students and compel them to repay their debts.
The SLC has long maintained that moving abroad is not a way of escaping the student loan repayments.
But while officials in the UK can readily access
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