Last night (November 10th), Katy and Margaret Smith MSP joined Glasgow University students for a debate entitled ‘Is it right to expect a free education?’
Both Katy and Margaret backed the students’ campaign to tackle student debt in Scotland, and to scrap the fees in England and Wales. Katy said:
“We had a great discussion with the students about why the Lib Dems think university education should be free, and about the increasing problems of student debt. We also talked about how we would fund this free education, through things like better, fairer taxes, and looking at the numbers of people who choose different types of further or higher education.
At a time when everyone is concerned about their finances and job prospects, expecting students to start their working life with thousands of pounds in debts is unacceptable.”
