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Free university tuition for Scottish students

Tue, 25 Jul 2006
Scotlands National Party will promise a return to the days of free university education for university students. This will be part of the election campaign starting in 2007. The SNP will pledge a £100 million pound package for Scottish students, abolishing the graduate endowment fee. Student loans will also be done away with, with the return of student grants. SNP Deputy Leader, Nicola Sturgeon, will announce in her next speech these promises which would be delivered should the SNP be elected into power next year.

Sturgeon believes that the current student university education policies prevent the youngest and poorest from an education. According to Sturgeon, such a policy would remove the graduate endowment, tuition fees, to and make university education free for students once again.

With the removal of student loans for student grants, students will be pleased that they face the prospect of not owing thousands of pounds to the Student Loans Company and being severely in debt come their graduation day.