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Student Occupation Against Tuition Fees at University of St. Andrews in Scotland

by Angus Johnston

Students launched an occupation of the gardens outside the offices of the president of Scotland’s University of St. Andrews early this morning. The group are protesting skyrocketing tuition fees.

Scottish tuition rates aren’t just high, they’re also bizarrely structured. Scotland’s universities are free for Scottish students, and free for European Union residents under EU rules that say that member state universities can’t charge more for other EU nationals than they do for locals.

But the rest of Britain isn’t subject to those rules, weirdly, so English, Welsh, and Northern Irish students, falling