Glasgow applications up after tuition fees move

Published on Saturday 4 February 2012 03:25

GLASGOW University has seen a bigger rise in applications than any of the UK’s other leading institutions, it has been confirmed.

Figures from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) showed Glasgow had outperformed the remainder of the Russell Group, the UK’s 20 leading higher education institutions.

The university said a total of 28,732 applications were received, compared with 25,887 at this time in 2011.

It said it had benefited from its decision not to charge the full £9,000-a-year tuition fees for rest of UK (RUK) students as its competitors Edinburgh and St Andrews have done.

Despite its decision to charge £9,000 a year for RUK students, Edinburgh has also seen an increase in applications of 3 per cent for English students, but St Andrews has seen a fall of 3 per cent.

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Chesh29

Sunday, February 5, 2012 at 10:13 PM

Cheap and cheerful

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Willie Boy

Sunday, February 5, 2012 at 01:33 PM

University applications in England are down by 9.8%. Clearly Westminster policies are delivering a thicker and dumber England. But, a word of warning though as the Hoose o Lords maneuvre to change the Scotland Act to force Scotland to give free tuition to any English student who applies to Scotland. it's just another respectful f"ck the Scots ploy by Tory and Labour bum chums.

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samcoldstream

Saturday, February 4, 2012 at 08:29 PM

On this occasion, the Nationalists aren't counting coup because they have nothing to prove, and the Unionists are remaining strangely silent, evidenced by the lack of comments, even childish, insulting ones?

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Kon

Saturday, February 4, 2012 at 04:05 PM

3 Faceless_bureaucrat, or Doctors or engineers.

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Pilrig.

Saturday, February 4, 2012 at 03:11 PM

3 - be honest, what ye want is the 'Clegg' system applied to students residents in Scotland.

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Faceless_bureaucrat

Saturday, February 4, 2012 at 01:22 PM

#1 - So you think its right that the taxpayer foots the bill for students "studying" media, golf course design, leisure management etc , and to extend that for foreign EU students and African asylum seekers. NO MORE FREE TUITION FEES unless they are Scots studying the hard sciences - maths and physics.

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M78

Saturday, February 4, 2012 at 01:01 PM

##1## Absolutely, The odd thing about the unionist argument is the repeated lies trotted out daily telling that Scotland is a basket case, yet there is blind panic and desperation to hold on to us, this does not make sense, they seem to be unwittingly making the case for independence.Perhaps oracles like the Falkirk one could explain the logic of this situation(whch of course, he will ignore)

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Alicia Murray

Saturday, February 4, 2012 at 08:33 AM

Savour this while you can. Labour party lords Foulkes, O'Neill, Browne are ganging up with Tory lords Forsyth, Sanderson and Lib Mclennan all to stop free university tuition. So much for devolution and making our own decisions. These so called democrats are only going to allow us to make our own decisions if they approve them. We are paying these pieces of crap £300 per day to think up ways to shaft us. When are we going to learn - in 2014 by voting yes!

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