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Iain Gray: ...irrespective of the students' family income. Scottish domiciled students who study full-time higher education (HE) courses elsewhere in the UK make an annual means tested contribution of up to £1,100 towards the cost of their tuition. Such students from low-income families will, therefore, have their tuition fees paid on their behalf by SAAS. In the current academic year there are 2,018...
David McLetchie: I look forward to the First Minister telling thousands of students in Scotland that tuition fees have been abolished when the bills for the graduate endowment land on their doormat within the next year or so—they will have an entirely different perspective on the so-called abolition. The problem that we are discussing today is entirely of the Labour party's making. It was Labour that...
Jim Wallace: Tuition fees can be perceived as an impediment to accessing full-time higher education courses. That is precisely why we abolished tuition fees for all eligible Scottish domiciled and EU students undertaking a full-time higher education course in Scotland since autumn 2000. The Graduate Endowment is not, however, a deferred tuition fee. Many of those who are eligible to receive free tuition...
Rt Hon Jack McConnell: In answer to the questions that Mr McLetchie posed earlier this week in a letter to me, I will be very clear. First, there will be additional money for Scottish universities for both tuition fees and research. Secondly, Scottish students studying at universities in Scotland will not pay tuition fees or top-up tuition fees, as I made clear in the chamber last week. Thirdly, income from the...
Mike Rumbles: One of the most important legislative changes that the Scottish Parliament made in its first session was to abolish student tuition fees. The fact that we are now having this debate on the effect of the proposals to allow English universities to charge students even higher levels of tuition fees demonstrates how right we were to abolish fees altogether for full-time students in Scotland....
Jim Wallace: Tuition fees have been abolished for Scottish domiciled and EU undergraduate students studying full-time higher education courses in Scotland. This support is available to all eligible full-time students to undertake study up to degree level or equivalent, provided they have not previously undertaken such a course with assistance from public funds. A student who undertakes a second course at...
Iain Smith: ...budget in the last two years of the Conservative Government, which represents a greater cut in real terms. Student support was cut 13 times by the Conservative Government. We have abolished tuition fees in Scotland. No Scottish student pays for tuition in a Scottish university. Their tuition fees are paid directly by the Scottish Executive.
Jim Wallace: Her Majesty's Government proposes to increase the income threshold at which student loans are repaid and to allow universities to vary the tuition fees that they charge. Although student support is devolved in Scotland, repayments of student loans are collected through the UK-wide tax system. Therefore, it makes sense to continue with the UK-wide income threshold and we have made a commitment...
Jim Wallace: The following table gives details of the number of Scots domiciled students at Scottish higher education institutions who receive no financial support with tuition fees from any external source. Scots Domiciled Students at Scottish Higher Education Institutions Who Receive No Tuition Fee Support 2001-02 Total Full-time Part-time All students 31,525 ...
Rt Hon Jack McConnell: ...also ensure that it reflects the issues that I have tried to address in my answers today—the key challenges for the Scottish higher education sector, nationally and internationally. We do not have tuition fees in Scotland at the moment, so we are not even debating the prospect of having top-up tuition fees. We have a system that is well funded and that already has high levels of access...
Rt Hon Jack McConnell: ...likes to call himself, I think that Mr Swinney will accept—I hope that he will accept—that it is impossible for me to predict what decisions might be made in the Scottish Parliament about top-up tuition fees, or any other matter, in years to come. However, I want to make one thing perfectly clear: there will be no top-up tuition fees for Scottish higher education students as long as I...
Jamie Stone: ...to the debate. I reiterate the point that I made in January: the position of the Scottish Executive as outlined in the partnership agreement is crystal clear. Read my lips: we will not introduce tuition fees in Scotland, as we oppose them in principle. That principle led us to abolish tuition fees in Scotland and has served Scottish students well since it was implemented. I welcome the...
Rt Hon Jack McConnell: ...clarify our plans for that in the coming weeks, as we have said that we intend to do. We will ensure not only that Scottish students in our higher education institutions do not have to pay top-up tuition fees or tuition fees up front; not only that we have the student grants and bursaries that we reintroduced ahead of the game in the rest of the United Kingdom; not only that we have...
Frances Curran: To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to address the funding situation of Scottish universities and the impact on them of tuition fees being charged at English universities.
Linda Fabiani: To ask the Scottish Executive how many students on Erasmus programmes at Scottish universities receive exemption from tuition fees.
Jim Wallace: The Scottish Executive is in regular contact with the UK Government on a wide range of issues, including the Department for Education and Skills proposals to introduce variable tuition fees for university students in England.
Murdo Fraser: If the First Minister's constituency counterpart at Westminster, Frank Roy MP, were to come to him and seek his advice on how he should vote on the bill on tuition fees, how would the First Minister advise him to vote? Would he advise him to vote in favour or against, or would he advise him to abstain?
Fiona Hyslop: To ask the Scottish Executive what additional costs will be incurred by the Student Loans Company if tuition fees in England and Wales are deregulated and what effect this will have on Scottish students.
Fiona Hyslop: To ask the Scottish Executive what research it has carried out into the effects of tuition fees and the graduate endowment scheme on attitudes towards study in further and higher education.
Iain Smith: We built a majority in the constitutional convention to get the Parliament, we built a majority to get rid of tuition fees and we will build a majority in respect of local income tax.
