{
  "id": 10834589,
  "title": "Can pay-as-you-earn funding fix Southeast Asia’s higher education debt problem?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/30/can-pay-as-you-earn-funding-fix-southeast-asias-higher-education-debt",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-30T01:59:47.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/people/article/3369266/can-pay-you-earn-funding-fix-southeast-asias-higher-education-debt-problem"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "A Singapore-based education financing programme is testing whether income-linked funding can widen access to higher education without an unmanageable debt burden, a model analysts say could help ease repayment pressure faced by graduates across Southeast Asia. Global Financing for Education’s (GFE) Pay It Forward scheme, publicly launched in September, provides students with funding for their…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}