yeah if you go to london and if you do a 4 year course....
for students not going to london & doing a standard 3 year course there is no need to get into that much debt. (or at least wasnt - probably will be the norm with the 3k topup fees though).
Under the new system:
Its taken at source (so that you never actaully see it going out)
In the talk we had she said it was somthing like for £20k is £5 a week
If you stop earning more than £15k (or somthing like that) repayments stop
If youve been unable to pay it back in 10 years they wipe the debt out.
And you never pay any interest.
I dont know how much that differs from the old system tho.