Kaito-kun wrote:True, but for how much longer will people south of the border think "Why the hell do those haggis sucking, kilt wearing, so-and-sos still get free university places while we're paying even more than we were before?! Our taxes still pay for those gits!" before trying to do something about it?
They can think that all they like. The Scottish Government is given pocket money by Westminster and is given mostly free reign in how to spend it.
We're not blowing 11 million on a world cup bid, or london olympics. Before pointing at what they don't have, people in england should stop and look at what they had, before it was p*ssed up the wall.
This is all a tad off topic though. These increases in tuition will by no means be permanent as so many people simply can't afford them. What it means in the short term is that people who had aspired to go should instead get into work, get some life experience, build savings and grow up a bit. By then it'll have cooled off a bit.