A third of Scots support the reintroduction of university tuition fees, a poll has suggested.
Free higher education has become politically indispensable for Scottish lawmakers over the past decade and a half.
Alex Salmond, the former first minister, once vowed that “the rocks would melt in the sun” before he reimposed university fees. His successor, Nicola Sturgeon, said that scrapping tuition fees had been the “greatest achievement of the SNP”.
However, critics argue that the policy has forced universities to ration courses. It emerged this month at least 1,200 places for Scottish students would be lost under budget cuts in the higher education sector.
