Britain To Sell Book Of Student Loans

In an effort to reduce their federal deficit, Britain will be selling state assets, including a betting service, real estate and a portfolio of student loans.  Given the private sector's inability to fund federal student loans today, the federal government has become the primary capital provider in the United States through the ECASLA financing programs.  I wonder if at some point in the future when capital markets return to more of a normalized state whether this option might be considered here in the U.S. as a way of reducing the national debt.