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And don't forget the anti-English and possible racist policy of Edinburgh Uni. 🙂
[url] http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/mar/19/edinburgh-university-scottish-application-bias [/url]
IanMunro - Member
And don't forget the anti-English and possible racist policy of Edinburgh Uni.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/mar/19/edinburgh-university-scottish-application-bias
You didn't actually bother to read the article, did you? How can a policy be anti-English or racist when it does not discriminate against any nationality? 16% of the population of Edinburgh is English, they aren't being discriminated against in any way. Neither are any of the other many nationalities, and neither are those kids going to school in the North of England.
I read it over the weekend thanks. There is a smiley 🙂
so to be English, working class and with kids of university age is to be doubly screwed by the Scottish state. A large portion of your taxes goes to propping up what's left of the ailing Scottish economy and their spendthrift social policies, but if you choose to take advantage of your investment in Scotland and send your kids to Uni there, if they don't discriminate directly against your kids' applications, you wil then have the priviledge of being the only EU national to pay tuition fees - someone is having a laugh I think...
Norton - Member
someone is having a laugh I think...
We are.
At you.
HTH
[i]someone is having a laugh I think... [/i]
No we're not. We're all out riding our bikes in some of the most beautiful scenery in Europe, and riding any trails we want thanks to our enlightened "right to roam" laws.
However we do have a right good giggle into our whiskies when we get home!
🙂
you wil then have the priviledge of being the only EU national to pay tuition fees
The tuition fees was a UK policy later scrapped in Scotland (one of the few good things to come out of the lib/lab alliance). The problem then is that if you don't charge tuition fees to applicants from England you'd be swamped with applications (and possibly not get enough state funding from England to cover the costs of teaching them).
I'm not sure how it works for other EU states coming to Scottish uni's but I've have thought their own states would be paying for their tuition, it's just England that want their students to pay their own (or at least a proportion of it). I've got a meeting with the senior finance folks at a Scottish uni tomorrow so I could ask.
EU states do not pay directly for the tuition of their nationals at another EU University - however, afaik English students at a Scottish University are the only examples anywhere in the EU of an EU national being asked to pay a higher tuition fee than that charged to those from the state in which the University is based.
The unis can do what they want.
It's really simple, go somewhere else!
There's loads of good unis in england. The riding won't be as good though 😐