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Originally Posted by happyland
Zee for PM! 
In fact, confirm something for me Zee.. Do Scots pay tuition fees? I know they were abolished years ago, but what exactly does a Uni student pay up here? |
The government pays for tuition fees so long as you apply for them through SAAS, they provide you with an award notice which you need to pass the details of onto your university so they can process your fee payments. Otherwise students have have to pay for accommodation and buy course materials (books etc) and live off an income made up of parental contribution, any wages they earn themselves and can apply for a student loan which varies from student to student because they base it on parental income - I don't have a student loan because I was going to receive the bare minimum from the Student Loans Company and my parents said they'd rather find the extra cash themselves than for me to get a pitiful amount and have to pay it back + interest. It's pretty costly living as a student here when you take all of that into account from the point of view of parents, so I think it's important that it's not just students who are protesting these proposed changes, because it affects a greater number of people than you might imagine to begin with.
Personally, I definitely wouldn't be at university in another city if Scottish students had to pay tuition fees, far too expensive to pay £1820 on top of everything else! I'd be living at home and probably wouldn't be allowed to go to uni, which is why I'm grateful that I don't have to pay tuition fees!