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Originally Posted by Cherie
Yes its free to go to Uni in Scotland and it costs a third of what English students pay in Wales....so if Unis are going bust maybe make it fairer across the board for all students  |
Undergrad is free for Scottish residents, which is very different to it "being free" - a large amount comes from international students and postgrad studies (which I can assure you are not free).
I agree it should be fair across the board but everyone deserves equal access to higher education without going into large amounts of debt, so personally I would be more in favour of a means-tested system (UK wide) where people pay fees proportionate to income (parent's income for school leavers, individual income for mature student undergrad).
We're already sliding into a hilarious idiocracy of people who believe that you develop the same level of critical thinking skills by becoming a unionised bricklayer as you do with a Redbrick university level education... let's not make it even harder for people to access learning.