Day: 1 September 2026

The bill for Scotland’s free tuition politics has finally arrived

The bill for Scotland’s free tuition politics has finally arrived As unveiled by Alex Salmond at Heriot Watt University in 2014

ANTON MUSCATELLI SAYS Scottish universities face a £200 million blow, and that we must act. He is right. The new funding-gap analysis he led for the Scottish Government and Universities Scotland is not an opposition briefing. It is the sector’s own costing method, applied to the system ministers still call world-class. The picture, he writes, […]