About Degrees for Students

 Online Parliamentary Information Office: Whilst there is an argument for "free" tertiary education, and a better argument for the right to housing, enshrining such rights in a written constitution - like the right to bear arms - sets a dangerous precedent that may prove impossible to overturn in the event of need. A constitutional commitment, unlike a political manifesto, cannot practically be put to the vote every few years or reneged upon by the government "until such time as the economic conditions are right", to use Mr Salmond's words on his "commitment" to investing a part of Scotland's oil revenues in a soveriegn wealth fund..


Online Parliamentary Information Office: "Free tuition fees, large numbers of people spending money in the Scottish economy, increase in universities, more employment"



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