FREE EDUCATION FOR SCOTS, AND NO PRICE HIKE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS

苏格兰人享免费教育，国际学生学费不涨价

Meanwhile, Scottish students do not have to worry about having tuition fees introduced. Scottish universities are currently free to both native and EU students, while students from the rest of the UK must pay up to £9,000. An independent Scotland would have been forced to take UK students free of charge on grounds of non-discrimination. This would have led to a huge increase in English, Welsh and Northern Irish students flocking to Scottish universities; why pay to go to Durham when a few miles further north you can attend Edinburgh for free? The subsequent massive reduction in income for the universities would have been disastrous - and may have forced them to dramatically increase fees for non-EU international students.

同时，苏格兰学生也不必担心自己得交学费了。目前苏格兰大学对本地和欧盟学生都是免费的，而来自英国其他地区的学生就必须交纳高达9000英镑的学费。一旦苏格兰独立，基于非歧视原则，苏格兰的大学就必须对英国学生免费。这会导致英格兰、威尔士和北爱尔兰的学生们蜂拥而至：如果往北几英里就能免费读爱丁堡大学，干嘛还交钱上杜伦大学？随之而来的后果是灾难性的：苏格兰大学的收入急剧减少，很可能被迫大幅提高非欧盟国际学生的学费。（真是那样的话，只好去卖肾了有没有。）

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