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Professor John Robertson OBA, former Head of Department and Associate Dean, UWS
While there is only, as yet, anecdotal evidence of people moving from England to Scotland with the specific intention of applying to attend Higher Education tuition fee-free, there are two reasons to suspect the trend may be underway in some measure.
First, we see an increasing number of media articles advising how it can be done and it is definitely more than possible given the autonomy of each HE institution to decide on whether the applicant meets the third criterion below:
To be considered a home student, the following three criteria must apply:
- You must be a British national or have indefinite leave to remain.
- You must have lived in the UK for three years prior to the start date of your degree.
- You must be considered “ordinarily resident” in Scotland at the point of applying for your degree.
For anyone considering a move across the border to save themselves, or their child, thousands in tuition fees, the third point will be the most crucial.
‘Ordinarily resident‘ is the weak-spot, as the Telegraph‘s Pieter Snepvangers puts it:
To be considered ordinarily resident in Scotland, you must make the nation your home, and intend to stay and live there. Temporary absences should be ignored and would not count against you.
However, the Scottish Government agency adds: “If you are just in Scotland to study, but otherwise you would be living elsewhere, you are not ordinarily resident in Scotland.”
What this means in basic terms is you cannot simply move to Scotland the month before applying to university to claim to be a Scottish resident. Your application would be denied on the grounds of only moving there for education purposes.
But while the rules stipulate you need to have lived in the UK for at least three years, there is no set time frame for how long you need to have lived in Scotland to be deemed eligible for free tuition.
It’s a grey area, and in some marginal cases, universities will rely on ordinary residence case law to inform its decision on your fee status.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/consumer-affairs/free-university-tuition-fees-move-scotland/
After spending most of my life in HE and knowing well the pressures administrators feel and the lack of principle they often apply to relieve them, I’d be very surprised if this trend is not well underway now after nearly a quarter of a century of no fees in Scotland and spiralling costs for students in England.
In more recent, post-pandemic times, many parents are now able to keep jobs in England and work from home almost anywhere, so Scotland is little stretch.
Second, in social media and in some MSM accounts, there is anecdotal evidence of individuals where the third criterion has been very flexibly interpreted by universities, especially the newer ones which are less able to attract better-off candidates from England, and are keen to attract any students. Remember the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence!
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Heard there are quite a lot at Edinburgh Uni and have heard here say a bit snobbish and better than the rest
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Presume you mean they think they are better…probs partly true. Edinburgh is awash with English people, they like the clean water, free prescriptions, free nursery places, good functioning SNHS, and yes no uni fees for their kids. Long as they vote for Scottish parties at the election (they won’t) and Scottish independence…some might, some will.
Scotland’s open to all, but it is almost akin to settlers who take advantage but don’t always have that countries’ best interests at heart, or is that a bad thing to say..after all I am from NE England, lived in Scotland thirty five years longer than I lived in England and did not vote at the Scottish devolution referendum, because I thought it was not my choice to make as I was new here and not Scottish, and knew nothing about Scotland really then. 😦
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That is very likley happening yes indeed. Seems far fra too easy to do and is a disgrace quite frankly. No one should be able to exploit Scottish universities and indeed the Scottish people with this type of scam. The ScotGov needs to change rules where a person must live in Scotaond F/T for a minimum of three years to claim being resident for study and to vote.
Last Scottish election when out canvassing, and every single English student we spoke to at the student halls were anti SNP and anti independence for Scotland!!!
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I guess there might be advantages IF those who graduate choose to stay and work in Scotland but on the other hand it seems we are shooting ourselves in the foot and not ideal we are seeing an influx of English who most likely will resist voting for an Indy Scotland. Certainly as a tax payer not enthusiastic about meeting the costs of English students who might otherwise afford to pay. Me thinks it is time for a re-think so we get the best out of this arrangement.
Robbo
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From the main blog post: ‘the Scottish Government agency adds: “If you are just in Scotland to study, but otherwise you would be living elsewhere, you are not ordinarily resident in Scotland.”
Not ordinarily resident in Scotland? But having achieved a university place in Scotland and so resident here for a period only to study, as I understand it, a simple change in electoral registration permitted students from England to vote on the future of Scotland in a referendum in 2014! And will be able to do so again if ever a second referendum is held – and on similar terms!
I recall in August 2014 having a conversation on a train north from London. A young lady studying at Edinburgh University for a few years shared her intention to vote ‘NO’ in the referendum. She admitted that she had no intention of remaining in Scotland after her study period at Edinburgh University was over. My wife had to calm me down!
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Yep that needs to be changed, especially re any independence vote being held in ny shape or form.
There are too many who don’t live in Scotland F/T who vote at Scottish elections and general elections in Scottish constituencies and it’s incredibly undemocratic. No other country would ever allow that anomaly re who has residency status…and it’s unacceptable in Scotland!
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O/T
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer was quoted in 2023 as saying that “Labour had changed permanently under his leadership”.
He then stated “if you don’t like that, if you don’t like the changes that we’ve made, I say the door is open, and you can leave”.
Well guess what….people are now acting upon that and so many are now leaving Labour as party members…..and also leaving as Labour voters…where future voting intentions are showing that Labour are down in the recent polling outcomes.
In February 2025 Labour List reported that Labour membership was down by 11%……since the 2024 UK GE.
In August 2024 (one month after the UK GE) it was reported that membership of the Labour party was at it’s lowest level in ten years.…….as under Jeremy Corbyn as the former Labour leader the membership was recorded as being 532,000 and then last year, under Keir Starmer as the new Labour leader, membership in August 2024 was down to 370,450, that is a loss of 161,550 members.
(Labour list, as of February 2025, now has the Labour membership at 309,000 so that is a further loss of 61,450 members since last August….so, for Labour, membership is still going down down down…as are the future voting intentions from the same public who elected them as the new UK government in July 2024)
So to quote Keir Starmer it is obvious that some members (quite a lot actually) “don’t like” him as Labour leader, “don’t like” Labour as a party and also “don’t like” the supposed “permanent changes” that he , Starmer, has made to Labour, as a party , under his leadership.
You see when people do become members (and voters) of political parties they do so because they see that a specific party is the one that seems to represent them best as people, also that party is seen as being the one that represents their values and their beliefs best ,also , as a political party, it is seen by those party members and voters as being distinct from other political parties, that they , as party members and voters , disagree with and so then they would never vote for those other parties.
Keir Starmer made the huge mistake in aligning his new “permanently changed” Labour party with much of the same policies , rhetoric, language and ideology as their main (supposed) opposition , as in the Tory party, who also, as party, fell into the trap of adopting the same policies, rhetoric, language and ideology as Nigel Farage’s various (pretend) political parties…..and look at what has happened to the Tory party now !
Starmer is also now making that mistake in him adopting that which Farage is promoting…..in what is clearly a weak submission by him, as the Labour leader, that he now is seemingly conceding that Labour cannot “beat” Reform UK , so Labour , as a party, may as well “join them”, in also now promoting similar policies, rhetoric, language and ideology as Reform UK, and so therefore Labour are legitimising Reform UK’s horrific future plans to try to ensure that their UK becomes a mini version of Trump’s America…..with America calling the shots of course………
There is so so so very much that Labour have got wrong including (but not exclusively )……….
Targeting the wrong people (the old, most vulnerable and poorest) to try to fill their Treasury coffers aka “financial black hole, while simultanously they seem determined not to target those other people who are more than able to fill their Treasury coffers aka “financial black hole” (as in those who are the wealthy, the large corporations and also the large-andforeign- Tech companies)……….
Supporting , and so not acting against, a foreign country who are governed by those who are cruel and violent oppressors , who have committed Genocide on a people and whose leader has been condemned by an International Court as one who is now considered to be a war criminal…….#ArrestWarrant
Badly letting down WASPI women, when prior to them winning the UK GE, they, Labour, including Keir Starmer, pledged their support for compensation to be paid to WASPI women….but now that they, Labour, are in charge since winning the 2024 UK GE, they have now abandoned and betrayed those same WASPI women…..
Failing to reduce our energy bills , when prior to the UK GE they, Labour, seemed to suggest that this, as an action, could be done (easily and immediately ?) via imposing a windfall tax on Energy companies. Indeed Labour (via Starmer) , when they were the official opposition party to the Tory party, berated the Tory party and the Tory PM for not acting upon this and so for not bringing down the very high energy bills for consumers…..but see what has happened re this now …..#Nowt (indeed how many increases have we seen now since July 2024 to our energy bills ?).
Hyping up GB Energy , pre the UK GE, having it’s headquarters in Scotland, which so far has proven to be nothing more than a ‘nameplate exercise’ for Scotland, as so far there has been no jobs created in Scotland from it , the Chairman of GB Energy is based in Manchester and not at the supposed GB Energy HQ office in Scotland and also there has been no financial benefit to Scotland , mainly because Labour rejected Zonal pricing , which would have seen a reduction in energy bills within Scotland (the same Scotland where we ,as a nation, are now sending electricity to various parts of England as we have a surplus #Excess…..but that means nowt as there will be no financial benefit for us, as in us seeing some reward/pay off …..like say us having lower energy bills in Scotland as opposed to having the highest electricity standard charges within the UK ….).
Basically we are not seeing any significant “change” under Labour from the terrible policies and decisions that we all had to suffer under the former UK government when the Tories were in charge…..in fact it almost seems as if we still have the Tories in charge as a UK government and so I wonder how those, within Scotland, who decided to vote Labour last year in the GE , now feel since they have suffered the same under Labour as they did under the Tories.….for example……
Still a high cost of living…..still the poorest being demonised….still the demonising and othering of those who come here from other countries to seek asylum…….still better rules for some (the few) and worse rules for others (the many)………still a clampdown on protests marches in what should be a human right to express one’s opinion and one’s opposition to what one considers to be wrong and so one opposes it……still a succession of scandals similar to the Tories (both individually as Labour MP’s and as a Labour party/government)…..still letting people down who have had an entitlement unfairly taken away from them (WASPI women) in not addressing an injustice……still supporting oppressive foreign governments who murder innocent women and children…..still committed to Brexit….still finding a vast amount of money for defence yet seemingly still declaring there is no ‘Magic money tree’ for other more essential services like say the NHS, Care service, Welfare State etc……still contributing to and so subsidising the extremely wealthy English Royal family ……still pandering to bankers in not capping Bankers bonuses, still telling Scotland NO to another independence referendum and also declaring that we are the poor relations within their (dysfunctional) family of nations who, as a poor relation, are having to be subsidised (but by whom, the UK or England)…….etc etc etc
( So really think Labour and you then really get Tory however you also now need to add into this equation Reform UK , that is when you think Labour and you then get Tory you then also get Reform UK).
Has anyone read a JKR review of the UK since 2014….where there was a omission in her 2014 prediction of what Scotland would experience if we voted NO, as in we would eventually see a right wing UK (via Labour and Tory) that would , very much in England, then elect a Nigel Farage -pretend- extreme right wing party to be the next UK government in 2029…..or has she not got round to that yet…..like she ignores WASPI women, the murder of women and girls in Gaza as part of her rights for women campaign on Twitter aka a seemingly “monomaniacal” quest…..that often ends up as #SNPBAD (reminiscent of 2014 really by her…is it not).
To hell with the UK and the likes of JKR, Katie Hopkins , Kelvin McKenzie , Dan Wootten, Farage, GB News, the UK gutter press and all others who are cut from the same cloth as those I have named….especially as far as Scotland seeking it’s independence is concerned , as they all have no faith in Scotland being a successful independent country but they do have a huge amount of faith and support for England and also for right wing parties (Labour, Tory, Reform UK) to govern in their UK in an English parliament.
That above is as good a reason to want out of the UK as any ….surely…..we just need a way to communicate it all to far far more voters within Scotland for them to then also come to that same rational and logical conclusion too….based on a S*** load of evidence that more than proves our case…….
Liz S
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Starmer,
https://x.com/SaulStaniforth/status/1956610242113892454
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@rtpscott
Saul Staniforth has written many excellent posts on both his Twitter and Blue Sky accounts where , like on TUS , he exposes the hypocrisy, lies, U turns , double standards and pure propaganda from the likes of this new UK Labour party/ UK Labour government and their useless new Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer…..
Saul Staniforth is also adept at exposing how complicit most of the UK media are, in all it’s formats, on many UK political matters and also international matters in their partisan and narrow perspectives in all of their coverage…as does TUS as a blog.
He also often exposes the reality of what the Israeli government represents as a government, where they are seen to be a very extreme and a very vicious right wing government and then he demonstrates how weak and complicit many western governments are on Israel’s terrible actions, more so Labour as the UK government.
As too are most of the UK media in respect to the Israeli government’s terrible actions against Palestinians in Gaza…..though they , as most of the UK media, often state it as being actions being done against only Hamas……….
So there are many bonny fighters , not just here in Scotland… but also elsewhere within the UK, against all of the lies, the propaganda and all of the rotten and morally corrupt establishment figures…..in all walks (of the so called) ‘British’ way of life …..with most of their UK HQ’s based in England….surprise surprise….not.
As in all those who are a part of the ‘British’ State establishment who choose to align themselves with just about everyone and everything that is so so so very very very wrong…..within the world .
Liz S
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Here is another O/T. from the Tories
Sunday Post 18th Aug 1974
WE’LL SCRAP BRIDGE TOLLS
“And Build A New A9”
This is in todays SP so anyone who is much more com. savvy copy it and get it up here hypocrisy comes to mind and money was flowing into London from the North Sea.
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SNP already scrapped bridge tolls in Scotland far as I know..and well, as for building any new roads…as if the English LABCONS at WM or in Scotland ever tell the truth about Scotland or indeed their intentions. More likely to close the roads and railways and bankrupt Scotland at the same time. NO thanks!
Independence, YES please!
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Can I also add that today JKR tweeted a bullseye emoji in support of a headline in a Rupert Murdoch owned rag, The Times , that stated “Scotland is sullied by the cult of gender ideology”.
Yet what is England and the Labour party now “sullied by”?….
The “cult of Brexit”, the “cult if English Nationalism”, the “cult of UK governments protecting Billionaires”, the “cult of the English and ‘Scottish’ media worshipping at the altar of every word uttered and written by a billionaire children’s author’ -especially those words that she expresses that are against the SNP and their various leaders .
Of course one has to remember that not only did JKR donate one million pounds to the No side in 2014 but she also donated one million pounds in 2008 to the Labour party…..
As it was reported that JKR cited that her donation to Labour in 2008 was because of “their record on child poverty” (so then I take it she no longer supports them as a party , as that record is now #broken and is obviously no longer an aim that Labour, as a party or UK government, wants to see achieved under them as the new UK Labour government under Sir Keir Starmer, as their new leader , and also as the new UK PM)…..
It was also reported in 2008 that “She was also a personal friend of Gordon Brown” who was Prime Minister at the time…
As in the same Gordon Brown , the infamous “Interventionist” , who in 2024 , prior to the UK GE , told us all that a “Keir Starmer Labour government would be a pioneer for slashing child poverty rates across the UK”……well there’s another pledge made by him, Brown the interventionist, that has fallen by the wayside….actually just like many of the pledges in the 2014 in the also infamous JKR statement (plea) , that she wrote to try to persuade Scotland to remain in her , and Labour’s , UK State.
#FakePledges aka Propaganda.
Liz S
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*actually just like many of the pledges in the 2014 in the also infamous JKR statement (plea)
What ?……Ha Ha
actually just like many of the pledges made in the 2014 (also now infamous) JKR statement (plea)
Liz S
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The students have to be resident in Scotland for two years. Quite a lot of bother but could be beneficial to Scotland if they remain. Scotland needs people. More population.
Neighbours – worked in the Middle East for ten years. Engineer Halliburton. Tax fee. Kids went to school there. Came back after 10 years. Kids College/uni age. They did not get educated funded. They needed to reside two/three years? They had to pay the fees and all funding. No qualifications for university in Scotland.
One went to College Glasgow paying all the fees. Other went to Uni London paying full fees. One now in Glasgow. One in Germany.
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JKR has now written another loooooooooooong post on ‘X’ today in response to a tweet by, checks notes, WOS. (which matches this loooooooooooog comment by me on here….Ha Ha).
The last paragraph of her post includes this….
“Lots of us were persuadable, but if the knee jerk response to common sense questions is ‘you’re a unionist traitor, a scaremonger and no true Scot’, don’t be surprised if the questioner becomes sceptical about the inclusive, egalitarian, welcoming utopia independence activists swore we’d be living in once they were in charge”…..(was that not exactly similar to what Anas Sarwar once aid , as in that he was referred to as being “a unionist traitor, a scaremonger and no true Scot”….so then it’s straight out of the Labour (weak) argument Bingo card…Ha Ha)
Really ?
However ….did the statement that she wrote , pre the 2014 Independence Referendum, not suggest that, for Scotland , the UK would be akin to a “welcoming utopia” once we , within Scotland, voted NO to independence ?
So then the British Nationalist activists, like JKR, “swore we’d be living in” an “inclusive” and “egalitarian” UK State….that has not happened , in fact the opposite has unfolded , so people like her should not “be surprised” if we who support independence “become sceptical” when she, and those various UK political parties, like Labour, try to, yet again, paint us who support independence as being the liars and so the baddies in the constitutional argument.
In JKR’s 2014 statement it is mostly only a snippet that is often referred to, but in actual fact it was quite a long statement that also included these following phrases , sentences etc ….like….for example when she wrote….
“ I came to the question of independence with an open mind” yet in the same paragraph she then states why she “wanted to write this because I always prefer to explain in my own words why I am supporting a cause and it will be made public shortly that I’ve made a substantial donation to the Better Together Campaign, which advocates keeping Scotland part of the United Kingdom“.
Surely then a contradiction in respect to her stating she came to the Q of independence with an open mind….. as with her having already given a donation to the NO side, then surely her mind was obviously already closed to the idea of Scottish independence ?
Also she stated in her 2014 statement “I’m mindful of the fact that when RBS needed to be bailed out, membership of the union saved us from economic catastrophe and I worry about whether North Sea oil can, as we are told by the ‘Yes’ campaign, sustain and even improve Scotland’s standard of living” ……
These were all BT Project Fear arguments made by the NO side…so was it really her being ‘Mindful’……on RBS – “During the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, the “No” campaign argued that an independent Scotland might not be able to afford to bail out major banks like RBS (now NatWest) in a financial crisis, potentially leading to the bank’s collapse or relocation. This contrasted with the “Yes” campaign’s assertion that Scotland, with its strong financial sector and potential oil fund, could have managed such a bailout.”
Then…….
“the union saved us from economic catastrophe” really ? Has she never read the McCrone Report….and when the UK was once itself, as a State, on it’s knees, as the Treasury coffers were almost empty, and Tony Benn, the then Labour government Energy Minister, conceded that the finding of (Scottish) Oil saved the UK from going T*** up…..#Bankrupt
As to her “worrying” about “whether North Sea oil can, as we are told by the ‘Yes’ campaign, sustain and even improve Scotland’s standard of living” then surely she knows that the UK government’s Treasury has gained a lot of financial revenue from Oil for their UK’s (mostly the South of England) benefit, it helped to totally transform London as a city (have you seen pictures of London before Oil was discovered) and also helped “sustain” and “improve” the UK government’s finances……..the same Oil that we were told was “running out” (the BBC tweeted that an expert- Sir Ian Wood- said it would run out in 2019) but the current Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves now says that we will need to rely upon it, Oil, “for decades”……
She , JKR in her statement, then also said she was “hesitant” about Scotland’s ability to “compete in the same global markets” and “defend itself from the same threats and navigate what still feels like a fragile economic recovery” as of course, in history no other country that left the British Empire has managed without Britain….said no one but British Nationalists. Is it then a case of Scotland being #TooWee #TooPoor and #TooStupid
She also said she “worried about its (Yes Movement) minimisation and even denial of risks. Whenever the big issues are raised – our heavy reliance on oil revenue if we become independent, what currency we’ll use, whether we’ll get back into the EU“…..does the UK as a State not “rely heavily on Oil revenue” ?
Also we are now OUT of the EU thanks to the UK government and every region in Scotland voted to Remain in the EU in the UK EU referendum in 2016, as in we said NO Thanks to their Brexit but we had to leave the EU as it was a UK vote…..and we could have initially still used the pound after we became independent, that is until we either may have decided to use Euros or until we had a new currency for Scotland.
Then she wrote that apparently for an independent Scotland “worrying about our economic prospects is poor-spirited , I’m afraid that’s a form of ‘patriotism’ that I will never understand. It places higher importance on ‘sticking it’ to David Cameron, who will be long gone before the full consequences of independence are felt, than to looking after your own. It prefers the grand ‘up yours’ gesture to considering what you might be doing to the prospects of future generations“
So why would Scotland be a impoverished basket case as an independent country but England minus Scotland would thrive ……yet out of all nations within the UK it is only England, via it’s politicians and media , who never ever state that England should seek it’s independence from the UK state as it would be far far better off ( a conundrum surely) .
Also guess what , that same David Cameron, on the 19 September 2014, as in the day after the Scottish independence Referendum, even before the ink was dry on the result of the Independence Ref vote, was surely “sticking it” to Scotland and also giving us an ‘up yours’ gesture in him announcing EVEL….superb timing No ?
As to the “future generations prospects” well they may now indeed have to suffer the consequences of that NO result back in 2014, because it is now predicted that an even more right wing UK government than Labour and the Tories, come 2029 , may become the next UK government based on recent polling (well that was not in JKR’s 2014 statement to Scotland, that’s for sure).
Then she added “Alex Salmond has underestimated the long-term impact of our ageing population and the fact that oil and gas reserves are being depleted…..so why then is the current UK government, the Tories and also Reform UK stating that they will still use , for the benefit of the UK (England , rich investors and rich energy companies) , fossil fuels, which they say will still exist and so be relied upon for decades to come for their UK State ?
Also is no one “ageing” in the other Nation’s populations within the UK and also within other countries in the world too….so how do they intend to cope….or will Scotland be , yet again, so unique as one that will constantly fail at this as well as failing in all other things as a future independent country….where somehow other countries within the would somehow manage to cope….#ProjectFear
She also notes that she has fears, that with an independent Scotland that “Scottish medical research” will be impacted ….. I have one word to state on that…BREXIT.
She also states “Scotland will be very much the smaller partner seeking arrangements from the UK to meet its own needs, and may not be in a very powerful negotiating position” so basically the UK will play dirty and unfair….so what’s new about that ?…..it’s almost like blackmail….vote NO or take the consequences where they , as a very much English government masquerading as a UK government, will yet again get to decide what they will allow us, Scotland, to have and also not have…..charming….such a winning argument….so negative and aggressive and so very much a UK State hostile position.
Does she even read what she writes and then, if she does, not then see that she is telling us, Scotland, that those who run the UK in England will (still) be B******* (which we knew anyway).
Her last sentence in her statement that she wrote in 2014 , prior to the Independence Referendum, and written to dissuade us from voting YES ,was actually a particularly poignant remark, when she wrote this:
“I just hope with all my heart that we never have cause to look back and feel that we made a historically bad mistake“
Oh yes, I think that many who voted NO in 2014 and who have since then had to endure, suffer and so had to tolerate a succession of S*** UK governments making terrible policies and also terrible decisions that have negatively impacted us in Scotland, now as former NO voters , very much “have cause to look back and feel that they had (not we as in us who voted YES) made a historically bad mistake“.
Hopefully next time they, as former NO voters will make the correct decision and also make the right decision for them and also for future generations and so vote YES, so that they need never again “look back and feel that they made a historically bad mistake“.
Perhaps not taking any notice of JKR’s future written and verbal attempts to persuade them to stay in her UK would also help……….Ha Ha
Liz S
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The term ‘ordinary resident’ was always qualified in the post-1980 rules for student fee eligibility as ‘not for purposes of full time education’.
This particularly affects under 18 year olds. A school student, under 18, whose parents live permanently in England but whose child moves to a Scottish boarding school (in say Edinburgh) is NOT regarded as ordinary resident in Scotland – because they are only living in Scotland ‘for purposes of full time education’. An under 18 year old living on their own in Scotland at other than a boarding school is technically possible, but the English-domiciled parents might face some some serious questions from the authorities about their responsibilities!
If parents were to move from England for purposes of work, to say Inverness, and the child then moves to a local school (or even if they remained at a boarding school in England), they would then be regarded as ordinary resident in Scotland as the presumption would be they ‘live’ in the parental home.
The challenge for parents moving from England well in advance of their offspring’s university entry is that Scottish state schools have a more limited diet of ‘Advanced Higher’ qualifications (the former Certificate of Sixth Year Studies) than the range they would get in a ‘sixth form’ in England; this then makes it difficult for them to get directly into the full range of English university degrees should they wish, because English University degrees only start after TWO years of more specialised so-called ‘sixth form’ (confusingly now partially retitled over two decades ago as ‘Years 12 & 13’, but still widely known by the original misleading title which is not related to Scotland’s S6 year). Of course if they are happy to go to a Scottish university 4 year degree (or 2+2 via a college), there’s no problem, they just do Highers like everyone else and don’t pay fees themselves.
So that’s why so many previously English domiciled middle class parents send their kids to private schools, especially in the concentration in the Edinburgh area, where the school might offer a wide range of A levels for entry to English universities. A slight exception to this are English music conservatoires (I used to work at one and was responsible for admissions administration), as most talented Scottish musicians are more than capable of getting an Advanced Higher or A level in Music without significant extra school tuition, so they only need one other subject/qualification at that level, once they’ve passed the audition, which is the real test for a place.
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