Students standing together to fight Government’s austerity cuts
Edinburgh University students are right to occupy against the imposition of £9000 fees for non-Scottish UK students studying in Scotland ("Student tuition fees sit-in", The Herald, September 17).
Tuition fees themselves are merely one aspect of a neo-liberal ideology in which every aspect of human existence, in this case education, is treated as a commodity to be bought and sold. The Scottish Government has rejected this for Scottish students, but if the tuition fees are unacceptable for natives we can see no moral or rational reason why non-Scots at our universities should be subjected to it. An injury to one is surely an injury to all.
Students standing together to fight Government’s austerity cuts
Edinburgh University students are right to occupy against the imposition of £9000 fees for non-Scottish UK students studying in Scotland ("Student tuition fees sit-in", The Herald, September 17).
Tuition fees themselves are merely one aspect of a neo-liberal ideology in which every aspect of human existence, in this case education, is treated as a commodity to be bought and sold. The Scottish Government has rejected this for Scottish students, but if the tuition fees are unacceptable for natives we can see no moral or rational reason why non-Scots at our universities should be subjected to it. An injury to one is surely an injury to all.
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