Uni fees and devoloution

[No1newts]

It will depend on the outcome of scot parliamentary elections but currently as it stands English students could have to pay up to 9k for a course, fees will vary uni to uni and course to course. Whereas unless it is over turned by Scottish parliament scottish students currently and will still pay not a penny in fees.

More surprised than anything else. Similar situation to free prescriptions north of the border. What, in the layout of the devoloutionary agreement, allows for this sort of unfair unbalance? Especially in a time of austerity I fail to understand how this can be justified.

If there is a specific within the agreement that allows this in the first place and can it be over ruled by Westminster?

I picked up the basics of this in the Economist but can't really dig up any further details.

 

[No1newts]

The imbalance exists because they are different countries.

Yes and no. They are Scotland but they are part of the uk and draw taxation and funding benefits from this. They are not an independant and self sufficent country. No offence meant to the scots on the forum is intended in that statement, just pointing it out.

Yet there is no chance their own taxation system can support such a generous system. I know they get some form of "allowance" from the central tax pot to use how they want. So if the answer is as simple as you make it should the "allowance" be supplied to support such a thing.

 

[No1newts]

It's not all that brilliant unless you are a student who needs a lot of prescriptions

Lol

So what you are saying is that you are in a huff and are jealous of us not paying any fees, and are now trying to find out how to force the scottish parliament into getting rid of SAAS. Haha.

Paid my fees when they cheaper when I was younger so neither here nor there for me, I was trying to find out whether a central education budget was paying for a service north of the border and then not providing an equal service south of the border.



On topic if they are getting their own budget and spending it on what they want then thats fine. I was unsure on how things worked exactly and the fact that its their own choice to spend the money on the uni fee's is no bother. Other servies will suffer for this.

On another note does their parliament have to fund everything up north of the border with the money that they are assigned or are certain services default paid for by central government and then their money is to spend on other services that they so choose?