>I have £90,000 of student debt to repay, but it felt like the right thing to do.

Debt is never "the right thing to do" ever.

In order to rack up nearly £100,000 of debt, he'd have to have studied at University for at least eight to ten years. (I'm not knocking him, I'm just saying.)

I'm hiring and can't find enough good CS candidates. Not in the UK though.