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The record of Scotland’s schools speaks for itself. The fact that we have delivered free education while students in England and Wales have to pay £9,000 a year in tuition fees and that younger students are being deprived of the education maintenance allowance shows how far ahead we are in terms of provision of and commitment to public services.
Universities aren't schools.
And having EMA doesn't help class sizes or anything else.
That's another SNP porkie.
Welsh students only need to take out a loan only for the first £3,685 of their tuition fees –the Welsh government pays the rest wherever in the UK they study.
According to a report in the Guardian ''Welsh university students get most financial support in UK, Welsh students receive the highest cost-of-living grants and incur the lowest debts to pay for their degrees.''
''A report comparing the different funding systems for 2014-15 shows that low-income Welsh students receive the highest cost-of-living grants and incur the lowest debts to pay for their degrees. The report compares grants for various incomes across all four UK nations, plus fees and student loans.
"For the poorest third or so of full-time students, the Welsh system is particularly good, wherever those students go to study in the UK," says Lucy Hunter Blackburn, former head of higher education at the Scottish executive and author of the report for the Economic and Social Research Council's Future of the UK and Scotland programme . "They receive the greatest help with the cost of living away from home."
In Wales, students from households with incomes of less than £18,000 get a cost-of-living grant (which does not have to be paid back) of £5,161 – nearly three times as much as the same group of students in Scotland (£1,750). It is also significantly more than the maximum cost-of-living grants in England (£3,387) and Northern Ireland (£3,475). The point at which families earn too much to qualify for any grant is also highest in Wales (a household income of just over £50,000) and lowest in Scotland (£34,000).''
Do the extremist cybernats ever actually tell the truth ?