I've over paid mine too by quite a significant amount! It's also worth checking their records against your pay slip as I know some people have been secretly shafted...

I somehow still owe loads on mine, I reckon it'll take another 8yrs for me to pay off because they only started taking money off me a few years back

that's the problem with wanting so many people to do degrees....

when I was flat sharing in London one of the girls I shared with was at a ballet school... which apparently also resulted in a degree - just seemed really strange - she wants to train in ballet though these days the course is turned into a 'degree' and so she had to take a few token lectures and exams too... in the past I'm sure they'd have just trained in ballet but these days training for nearly everything seems to have been packaged into a course exactly 3 years long resulting in a 'bachelors' in something. I'm assuming packaging the course as a 'degree' allowed the school to charge the (at the time) 3k fees and get govt funding instead of asking students to cough up  10k or so per year to cover actual costs had it not been a 'degree'.

most jobs outside of medcine and certain areas of engineering technically don't even require a degree anyway - tis still possible to train as an accountant, actuary etc.. without a degree - there is even a route to become a solicitor without a degree

No one magically hoped that, they knew everyone could be swindled and then subsequently accept their lot and work at Maccy D's in the vein hope the right job would be handed to them on a plate at some point.

Back on point, I got my refund via BACS and no more payments so I'm a little bit better off each month now