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Rt Hon Jack McConnell: Those who run the university systems in England and in Scotland have been able to use their basic intelligence to ensure that, despite the fact that we in Scotland have proudly abolished tuition fees—Mr McLetchie might not have noticed that we already have a different system in Scotland from the rest of the United Kingdom—we have managed to preserve the ability of Scottish students to...
Fiona Hyslop: ...main areas: higher education, public services, and child care and poverty. The Herald today gives an interesting example of a situation in which Scottish students will lose out under the proposed tuition fees because they will have the worst of both worlds. Should the proposals in the English white paper go ahead, Scottish students would have to pay £9,000 up front, whereas if we were...
Fiona Hyslop: To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on the statement in the general report of the Bologna follow-up seminar in Athens that "it is clear that tuition fees can form severe access thresholds" and whether it will review its graduate endowment scheme accordingly.
Elaine Murray: ...ask the Scottish Executive whether there would be any changes in the repayment of student loans and the graduate endowment if proposals by Her Majesty's Government on the reform of student loans and tuition fees are implemented. (S2O-568)
Murdo Fraser: To ask the First Minister what the impact of the introduction of top-up tuition fees in England and Wales will be on Scottish universities. (S2F-211)
Linda Fabiani: To ask the Scottish Executive how many students on Erasmus programmes at Scottish universities receive exemption from tuition fees.
Phil Gallie: ...doctors are coming through. Are a sufficient number of students going through the universities? Is there a fallback position to six-year courses? We also have to question the Executive's position on tuition fees and the removal of grants. Do those issues play a part in the problem? I am not making a political point; I am laying down the facts that we have to take into account when we...
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.
Robert Brown: ...achievements have been made in education, such as pre-school education for three and four-year-olds; the McCrone settlement; and support to our universities and colleges through abolishing tuition fees and restoring student grants to an extent. The Executive and the Parliament have acknowledged the key need for colleges and universities to drive not only the education of our people, but...
Robert Brown: ...universalist argument versus the targeted-provision argument. I, as a Liberal Democrat, have no particular position on or caution about universalism. We went for universal provision in the case of tuition fees and such provision is similarly appropriate in other situations. I view the measure as a practical matter to be considered for a particular situation. Some people want to extend...
Fiona Hyslop: ...us not leave today's primary schoolchildren paying for their school when they are into their working lives. The private finance initiative or public-private partnerships in education are the worst tuition fees yet imposed. Let us not hamstring the young of today with the debts of tomorrow. Let us dump the profiteer's charter and get rid of excess profits from education, put other practices...
Dennis Canavan: ...For example, if the Labour party had had an overall majority in the previous parliamentary session, I do not think we would have seen the reintroduction of student grants, the abolition of up-front tuition fees and the introduction of free care for the elderly. In the new session, I hope that the composition of the Parliament will also help to deliver better policies and stop some of the...
Stewart Stevenson: ...hellos, but I am cautious about their effect. For a new graduate, the golden hello is likely to be substantially smaller than their debts. The introduction of the graduate tax—or the abolition of tuition fees, as the Liberals would prefer me to say—is a strong incentive for graduates to consider posts outwith the United Kingdom.
Rt Hon Jack McConnell: ...protection from antisocial behaviour. Legal changes increased the protection of victims of sexual crime and ensured that their dignity would be preserved. We abolished the financial barrier of tuition fees for more than 100,000 young people in Scotland. We began the essential major investment programme to rebuild Scotland's schools, provide new hospitals and upgrade local health care...
Lord David Steel: ...includes, amongst many other accomplishments, a full legislative programme and Executive action in urban and rural areas that has led to record investment in the health service, the abolition of tuition fees, the introduction of free personal care for older people, nursery places for all three- and four-year-olds whose parents want them, record numbers of police, an increase in the seizure...
Alex Johnstone: ...entertaining when he referred to the "flagship policy" of free personal care, when he expressed his enthusiastic support for PFI and when he claimed to have been personally responsible for ending tuition fees. I have to say to George Lyon and the rest of the Liberal Democrats that not a single one of their achievements, which they trumpet so often, could not have been achieved more...
Iain Gray: ...are autonomous bodies, have committed to a social inclusion pledge undertaking, among other things, to promote inclusion through fair admission and the valuing of all achievement. Contributions to tuition fees have been abolished for all eligible students undertaking full-time HE courses at Scottish institutions since 2000. Since 2001-02, young students from less affluent backgrounds have...
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...
Mike Rumbles: ...conclusion. The Liberal Democrats support the Budget (Scotland) (No 4) Bill, as it is good news for Scotland. It underpins the real achievements of the Executive, including the abolition of student tuition fees, the implementation of free personal care for the elderly, the McCrone deal for our teachers and the free central heating initiative for our pensioners to name just a few of them....
Iain Smith: .... In this Parliament, while the SNP has been sitting on the sidelines accusing us of having sold out and having been duped by Labour, we have delivered on free personal care, on the abolition of tuition fees and on freedom of information. The list goes on and on. Unlike the SNP, the Liberal Democrats are not afraid of getting involved. We are not afraid of doing the hard work and we are...
