i think it's a great move and people should never have had to pay in the first place.
as for that age old argument from thatcherites and the like about your taxes paying for students to go to uni, it's ridiculous.
taxes pay for services to the benefit of the country and the economy as a whole. your taxes help subsidise loads of things you yourself don't benefit from that's the whole point of taxes. on the whole university graduates earn more than those less qualified and as such pay more taxes when they leave university so they do pay for their own education in the long run.
it's ridiculous how much of a stigma there is about paying taxes in this country. try living in scandanavia. higher taxes should mean better services and a much higher standard of living yet we're all so determined to look after ourselves that we miss the bigger picture. scotland having one of the worst live expectancies in the developed world and some incredible levels of poverty. if this means that we can get more people into university and keep them in scotland(declining population remember) then that can only benefit everyone, including you stingy tax whingers.
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