Universities in Scotland are racing to attract students from the rest of the UK in what promises to be “a clearing campaign like no other”, offering a range of financial incentives to lure them to study over the border.
Tens of thousands of pounds in bursaries and scholarships are being offered to students from England, Wales and Northern Ireland, to entice them to take up places to study in Scotland this September.
With education a devolved area of policy in the UK, each nation’s government is able to set its own tuition fees and student support. Scotland does not charge tuition fees for its own students and as a consequence their numbers are capped.
