Do Scottish universities actually discriminate against English applicants?

I didn't say you, I'm talking about the admissions people.

"Pillock".

If the Scottish Government can do it, then I really don't see why Westminster can't for us either. And yes, I agree, it's not your fault (and I agree with the principle).

Jealousy on my behalf, I guess.

Okay, sorry i snapped.
Just annoys me when people make it out to be our governments fault, when in fact, theyr doing the right thing, and westminster are the ones who are stuck in the past.

Yes, Scottish universities offer free tuition to all citizens from EU member states, EXCEPT the rest of the UK. Ok, so that includes Wales and Northern Ireland as well as England, but the reality is we all know this is aimed at the English, because the Welsh and Northern Irish get reduced fees anyway, it is the English it most effects.

Why can't the Scottish government let everybody go to their universities for free in the UK?

I might be being naive, somebody explain?

http://www.saas.gov.uk/student_support/eu_students/2001_or_later/financial_support.htm

Says quite clearly the Scottish government will pay for the tuition fees of any non-UK EU citizen. Whole thing reeks of a "evil Sassenach" mentality to me.

its not, because its a load of crap.
international students get grants or bursaries, and its not all of them, just a select few.
scottish students get in free because our government gives us it free, because we should be entitled to it. its not our fault its unfair, its westminster.

No, please learn about the system before ranting about it. If a Scottish student wants to go to university in France for example then there will be no fees paid, but if they want to go somewhere else in the UK then they will pay fees. It's a reciprocal agreement between Scotland and other EU countries, and the rest of the UK hasn't joined it. Scottish universities already have lower (roughly half) tuition fees than elsewhere in the UK and they won't pay for the fourth year's fees because that is covered by the Scottish government.

yes they do, but why shouldn't they? scottish students don't get to resit their exams untill they all have straight As
edinburgh in particular prefer scottish students. i dont know anybody who got rejected from my school (people with 4Bs etc), however one of my friends at cambridge knows people there who did get rejected.

Yes, Scottish universities offer free tuition to all citizens from EU member states, EXCEPT the rest of the UK. Ok, so that includes Wales and Northern Ireland as well as England, but the reality is we all know this is aimed at the English, because the Welsh and Northern Irish get reduced fees anyway, it is the English it most effects.

Say you're from Liverpool and you apply to Manchester, you could be rejected because the tutor has a seething hatred of Scousers.

Its a government thing. Everybody scottish and everyone who has lived in scotland for the past 5 years or something, gets tuition fees payed for them.

Not just English students, welsh and Northern Irish applicants as well. They often prefer International students to those in other parts of the UK.

No, please learn about the system before ranting about it. If a Scottish student wants to go to university in France for example then there will be no fees paid, but if they want to go somewhere else in the UK then they will pay fees. It's a reciprocal agreement between Scotland and other EU countries, and the rest of the UK hasn't joined it. Scottish universities already have lower (roughly half) tuition fees than elsewhere in the UK and they won't pay for the fourth year's fees because that is covered by the Scottish government.

I don't think that's true at all.

I got offers from Edinburgh and St Andrews (Chose to accept St Andrews)

Plenty of my friends got offers from both, and there are quite a large percentage of english/ european/ north american students at both uni's.