{"id":360055,"date":"2026-01-09T02:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T02:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/360055\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T02:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T02:16:09","slug":"scottish-students-should-pay-towards-tuition-says-edinburgh-uni-principal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/360055\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish students should pay towards tuition, says Edinburgh uni principal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Action has been ongoing at Edinburgh University since June, but has been paused after it agreed to halt redundancies for this academic year.<\/p>\n

The university announced the programme of cuts in February last year, citing severe financial difficulties.<\/p>\n

The UCU union has suggested about 1,800 jobs could be lost due to the university’s cost-saving measures.<\/p>\n

This week, strike ballots opened at Aberdeen, Heriot-Watt, Stirling and Strathclyde over threats of job losses and compulsory redundancies<\/p>\n

Strike action has also been ongoing over job cuts at Dundee University<\/a>, which currently faces a \u00a335m deficit.<\/p>\n

The Scottish government has already stepped in and bailed out the university with \u00a340m of emergency funding.<\/p>\n

Mathieson said the situation at Dundee highlighted the “fragility” of Scotland’s university sector and its reliance of foreign students as an income stream.<\/p>\n

He added: “The current system is not sustainable and it’s heading for trouble as illustrated by Dundee.<\/p>\n

“I’m sad about what’s happened at Dundee. I think it’s a tragedy for a great university in one of Scotland’s great cities.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Action has been ongoing at Edinburgh University since June, but has been paused after it agreed to halt…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-360055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}