November 14, 2004
Fees and 'foreign' students from south of the border
But it wants to go further and impose even higher fees for medical courses because so many English students come here to study medicine then return south, leaving a shortage of doctors in Scotland.
While I hate to ever admit that 'student' leaders are right [particularly as the National Union of Students - the NUS - doesn't even represent all universities, not to mention all students...] if the Scottish Executive was really concerned about admission rates of English students in particular courses surely they could just have a wee chat with SHEFC, the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council about it???
After all, the odds that English students would come up to Scotland to do a law degree and then move back to England does rather beggar belief [as the English and Scots have separate legal systems].
The real issue is that some Universities orient their medical schools more to English students than Scottish students, and as the English and Scottish school systems are markedly different this is a serious structural disadvantage Scottish students face.
PS: I wonder when everyone who's so upset about the lack of dentists in Scotland will start asking questions about why the University of Edinburgh was allowed to shut its Dental School in the early 90s...?
Posted in: Edinburgh, Education
Previously: Too few bobbies on beat after shake-upNext: slacktivist: The United States of Arbusto
