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UK Universities Minister David Willetts has launched a 12-week consultation period on Shari’ah compliant student loans with the aim of getting more Muslim students into higher education in the UK. The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has been developing a model alternative finance product which would be Shari’ah-compliant and could potentially be offered alongside traditional loans. This model finance product has been developed by experts in Sharia-compliant finance and has received preliminary approval from the Islamic Bank of Britain’s Sharia supervisory committee. The consultation seeks to determine whether the alternative finance model identified would be acceptable to anyone who might be deterred from the conventional system.