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Tuition Fees

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NUS target Clegg over tuition fees »

The National Union of Students (NUS) has called on Nick Clegg to explain his party’s stance on the raising of tuition fees for students from England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The controversy surrounding the rise in tuition fees has been exace...

Wed 18 Jan 2012 by Greg Bianchi | Read more »

Met haunted by memory of Millbank as students march in London »

Police officers outnumber protesters in London

Thousands of students once again flocked to central London last week, in a day of protest which saw the Metropolitan Police criticised for what was widely seen as an excessive policing effort. Around 3,000 students joined the National Campaign Against...

Sun 13 Nov 2011 by Marcus Kernohan, Emma Elliott-Walker | Read more »

Live: Fresh student protests to hit London »

Protesters at last year's 'Demolition' march

As students from around the UK take to the streets of London tomorrow to protest against rising fees and drastic cuts to higher education funding stay tuned to The Journal's live-blog (below) for updates from our reporters on the ground and reaction fr...

Tue 08 Nov 2011 by Marcus Kernohan, Emma Elliott-Walker, Dominic Sowa | Read more »

Drop in university applications »

Applications to Scottish Universities from people living in Scotland have fallen 10 per cent since last year. The figures, released by UCAS, also show a drop of 15.4 per cent of applicants from Scotland to English universities and a 4.5 per cent drop ...

Wed 02 Nov 2011 by Tom McCallum | Read more »

Miliband's ill-informed idea »

Ed Miliband

Ed Mlliband has come under fire from all sides this week after announcing at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool that “if Labour were in power right now, they would cap tuition fees at £6,000”. This plan ...

Wed 05 Oct 2011 by Emma Elliott-Walker | Read more »

Students occupy Strathclyde University in wake of RUK fees »

Occupiers at the University of Strathclyde

Demonstrators last week occupied Strathclyde University overnight in protest at the recent decision to increase tuition fees for rest-of-UK (RUK) students. Around 30 students from universities across Scotland staged a sit-in protest inside the institu...

Tue 04 Oct 2011 by Alan Robertson | Read more »

Strathclyde occupies £9k territory »

University of Strathclyde

The University of Strathclyde last week became the latest Scottish institution to set tuition fees at £9,000 a year for students from the rest-of-the-UK (RUK). Undergraduates from England, Wales and Northern Ireland attending the Glasgow-based i...

Tue 04 Oct 2011 by Alan Robertson | Read more »

Campaign with students — not just on their behalf »

Protesters at Old College last week

In the spring of 1968, a small group of students and intellectuals occupied the University of Paris at Nanterre to protest against university administrators and debate the malaise ailing contemporary French society. What began that day in March continu...

Tue 04 Oct 2011 | Read more »

Students occupy Strathclyde University »

Occupiers at the University of Strathclyde

Students from institutions across Scotland have occupied a leading university in Glasgow in the wake of recent announcements over fees rest of UK students are to face. A reported 30 students have staged a sit-in of Strathclyde University's Court Senat...

Thu 29 Sep 2011 by Alan Robertson | Read more »

Glasgow University sets £6,750 RUK fee for majority »

University of Glasgow

Glasgow University today opted to partially undercut ancient rivals St Andrews and Edinburgh in setting fee levels for rest of UK (RUK) students. The institution is to charge the majority of students from England, Northern Ireland and Wales £6,7...

Wed 28 Sep 2011 by Alan Robertson | Read more »

Strathclyde University set £9k per year RUK fees »

University of Strathclyde

The University of Strathclyde has become the latest Scottish institution to set tuition fees at £9,000 a year for students from the rest of the UK. University Court, Strathclyde's governing body, today announced the increased charge for students...

Tue 27 Sep 2011 by Alan Robertson | Read more »

Glasgow Caledonian heap pressure on city colleagues with RUK fees undercut »

Glasgow Caledonian University

Pressure is mounting on higher education institutions in Glasgow to resist charging maximum fees to students from the rest of the UK (RUK) after Glasgow Caledonian University last week became the first university in Scotland to declare levels lower tha...

Mon 19 Sep 2011 by Alan Robertson | Read more »

R U K(idding)? »

Mike Williamson VPAA

I hope student readers from the rest of the UK realise how lucky they are. Just think, if your parents had brought you into the world a few years later than they did and you were due to come to the University of Edinburgh next September, you&rsquo...

Wed 14 Sep 2011 by Mike Williamson | Read more »

A pragmatic decision »

Michael Russell MSP

As a government we fundamentally believe in the principle of free education, and that is why we have made it clear that we will never introduce tuition fees for Scottish undergraduate students. In an ideal world, no student attending a Scottish univer...

Wed 14 Sep 2011 by Michael Russell | Read more »

RUK fees: Behind the headlines »

Simon Jennings

In introducing this policy the cabinet secretary Michael Russell said it gave him no pleasure and he would rather no student, whatever their domicile, had to pay fees to study in Scotland. Universities Scotland described the Scottish Government’s...

Wed 14 Sep 2011 by Simon Jennings | Read more »

After Burns, cooler heads prevail at NUS Scotland »

Robin Parker

Robin Parker is working late. When the new National Union of Students Scotland president greets me at the door of his office, the union’s plush headquarters in Edinburgh’s New Town is so quiet it looks like he might be the last man standing...

Wed 14 Sep 2011 by Marcus Kernohan | Read more »

News Shorts »

Scottish public supports tuition fees - The majority of the Scottish public believes that students should pay for university education, a survey has revealed. The survey, commissioned by the Scotsman and conducted by YouGov, questioned 1,135 Scottish...

Wed 04 May 2011 by Jessica Abrahams | Read more »

Scottish universities should 'sell extra places' »

A report by The Fraser of Allander Institute at the University of Strathclyde has recommended that the next Scottish Government should charge for those willing to take extra places on Scottish degree courses. The Fraser of Allander Institute report al...

Wed 04 May 2011 by Jonathan Baldie | Read more »

Why not put a price-tag on ignorance? »

The recent tripling of the tuition fee cap was something that happened horribly and inexorably, despite continued protests in the run-up to the parliamentary vote. As with several landmark changes in Higher Education, the reasoning behind the decision ...

Wed 04 May 2011 by Dan Finch-Race | Read more »

Fool me once... »

In the last month, The Journal has interviewed the leaders of all five major Scottish political parties. We begin today with Alex Salmond and Iain Gray, respectively the leaders of the SNP and Scottish Labour. One of these men, it is generally accepted...

Wed 20 Apr 2011 | Read more »

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