Are the days of free tuition at Scottish universites numbered?

With all these cuts they're taking, my mum reckons so and so she doesn't want me to drop out of uni, and reapply next year. :/

Why are you dropping out? (Am I right in saying you are currently at strathy? lol)

The Scottish governemt would need to debate it for months, and with a new government being elected in October(I think) they won't bring it up for a good couple of months. If they do decide to change the system (Unlikley) then they would need to get this through government, and a bill passed. After that which takes a further couple of months they would need to get all the unis on board and sort out the financial side of how it would work, who would get what etc, which would take a long time.

Then, if it finally happened in a few years current students would likley be unaffected as it would not be fair, so it would only be people entering education that would be affected. By that time you would be finished university, assuming it takes a few years to redesign and overhaul the system. There would probably be a public referendum on the matter too.

So yeah I wouldn't worry about it. The scottish government will most likley defend it to the death anyway :/ Unless of course the tories down south changed financial stuff but again that would take months to pass and then it would need to get sent up to scottish parliment etc

If you want to drop out and reapply, do it, and don't listen to your mother's scaremongering in an attempt to get you to stay

Thanks for that! You're completely right. I'm studying history and politics at strathclyde but I feel like i just kinda fell into it, i didn't know what to study at all. I emailed Aberdeen about a transfer to join in September but they said no, I might try stirling. I'd like to do primary teaching with either french or history I think. I like the idea of staying at a campus like stirling too. Feel like i kinda missed out for not staying in halls. I probably have like no chance of getting in cause there was no clearing but I could try!

yeah No point in regrets and if you want a campus halls type experience then stirlings the right place hehe. If you don't get in would you just stick it out at strathy or take a gap year and just go through ucas again? You could maybe goto college or something or work and save up so you get the experience it seems you've been looking for and never got

I'd probably just stick with strathy tbh. i've given stirling an email, so we'll see what they've got to say! Thanks for your help