University denies using English students as 'cash cow'

One of Scotland’s eminent universities has denied treating English students as a ‘cash cow’ despite offering them more places than their Scottish peers for the first time. Edinburgh University has so far offered 4,996 English applicants a place, more than double last year’s total, after ministers allowed universities to charge school-leavers from the rest of the UK £36,000 (US$58,000) for a degree, writes Simon Johnson for The Telegraph.

Although there has also been a large increase in the number of Scots offered a place, the English total is higher for the first time in the institution’s 429-year history. The National Union of Students said the figures showed the university was “shamefully putting profit before the interests of its students".

But the university said it needed to offer more places to the English because it expected the acceptance rate to fall. The maximum amount that its competitors in England can charge for a degree is £27,000, making them £9,000 cheaper.
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