St Andrews confirms it will charge £9000 fees

Education Correspondent

Saturday 10 September 2011

A SECOND Scottish university is to offer the most expensive degree in the UK after announcing fees of £9000 for students from England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

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Andrew Denholm

The decision by St Andrews University means students will pay £36,000 for a four-year degree. By comparison, the cost of a degree at Oxford and Cambridge, regarded as the best in the world, will be £25,000 from next year.

Earlier this week, Edinburgh University became the first in Scotland to announce plans for a £36,000 degree.Edinburgh’s Heriot-Watt and Aberdeen also announced fees of £9000 a year, although the total cost of a degree will be capped at £27,000.The news comes just weeks after Education Secretary Michael Russell said he expected Scottish universities to show restraint in setting fees, with £6375 a year quoted as a competitive figure.Last night, St Andrews officials said new bursaries introduced alongside higher fees would alleviate the burden for poorer students from the rest of the UK, and said the £9000 fee was not even enough to cover the cost of teaching, which they said was £11,772 a year.University principal Louise Richardson said: “A fee of £9000 per annum to attend St Andrews is a good deal and does not cover the cost of the education provided.”But Patrick O’Hare of the Student Association said: “This unprecedented hike is precisely the wrong message to send out when St Andrews struggles to attract students from state schools.”l St Andrews was named best university in Scotland in the Sunday Times University Guide 2012. Glasgow climbed to second, with Edinburgh in third. Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh was named as Scottish University of the Year, while Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen was named top modern university.

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