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Originally Posted by Soldier Boy

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.

I worked at Imperial College in Postgraduate Education so I am aware of the incredible amounts overseas students pay as well as postgraduates, but for Scottish and Welsh students they dont go into postgraduate education with a 27,000 plus debt which doesn't seem fair ....make it equitable across the board, ask every student to pay 5,000 a year and increase overseas students fees they are eyewatering already but seem content to pay