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Scottish students could lose as university places offered to school leavers the lowest English grades A-

Adam Smith, Charles Darwin, a pair of signers of the Declaration of American Independence and graduated from Brown University first Scotland - Edinburgh. A title of the former institution - recently ranked 20 in the QS world rankings, up from Berkeley, California, and the London School of Economics - is the gold standard of Scottish education. But some fear that next year the cream of the cream of Scottish schools could miss out on the scene, filmed for students willing to pay for English gold.

next fall, according to the legislation currently before Parliament, the Scottish universities will be able to accept many English students from Northern Ireland and Wales ("the rest of United Kingdom "- RUK - students) they want - and Edinburgh, recently announced they charge £ 9000 a year in fees to a maximum of four years.

The Scottish Government will only pay $ 5,000 per year for Scottish students studying in many courses, and the university will face a shortage of investment opportunities and business. RUK students are seen as a way to bridge the funding gap. But it may be that the caliber of those that apply to the decrease in Edinburgh. Next year, the set of lines of England-A, students must be removed from the ceilings set by Westminster, and universities English is "submission" to them with scholarships and grants.

Currently, the minimum input view of Edinburgh is a pension at a level three - at the moment, this type of offer is made only to students with low school performance or are the first their families to attend college. Most students in Edinburgh are entitled. However, next year, the offer to students RUK may be lower than they were in the past.

One academic, who declined to be named, said: "One concern is that universities are offering scholarships in English attractive to students who do well in their exams, so that the flower and cream of the crop is gone. Students apply in English £ 9,000 cash with them and they told us that the three B is likely to be more of a real bar of what is right now. "

applications usually involve an additional year cost plus potentially uncomfortable situation to pay for a course that most students get free.

, the author of a major report on the financing of higher education in Scotland, who argued that free higher education is unsustainable, says the Board is concerned by the lack equitable access to the competition in Scotland. "I hope that the various agencies to try to maintain the principle of equal access for students from the rest of the UK and Scotland," he said.

president of the students at the University of Glasgow, Christopher Sibbald, said: .. "It seems unfair that students in Northern Ireland, Wales and England could travel to places with lower grades here will cause great concern at the same time, sorry for them because they will have to pay these The registration cost is enormous. " President