{"id":1260,"date":"2014-04-30T06:03:10","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T13:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/?p=1260"},"modified":"2014-04-30T06:03:10","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T13:03:10","slug":"free-pricing-and-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/2014\/04\/free-pricing-and-access\/","title":{"rendered":"Free pricing and access"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"free<\/a>Scotland has a policy of free university tuition. Today The Guardian<\/em> reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The research by Lucy Hunter Blackburn, a former civil servant with the Scottish government, estimates that free university tuition and the cuts in grants to lower-earning students means middle-class families and students will be \u00a320m a year better.<\/p>\n

She estimates that the overall costs to lower-income families, including thousands of students at further education colleges, have gone up by at least \u00a332m a year after the grant cuts forced them to take out larger loans.<\/p>\n

“Free tuition in Scotland is the perfect middle-class, feel-good policy,” Hunter Blackburn said. “It’s superficially universal, but in fact it benefits the better-off most, and is funded by pushing the poorest students further and further into debt.<\/p>\n

“The Scottish system for financing full-time students in higher education does not have the egalitarian, progressive effects commonly claimed for it.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Arts administrators take note. I wrote a post on targeting of benefits in the early days of this blog, here<\/a>. There are many ways to reach out to lower-income patrons, and a blanket cut in prices is not necessarily one of the better ways.<\/p>\n

H\/T @AlexUsherHESA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scotland has a policy of free university tuition. Today The Guardian reports: The research by Lucy Hunter Blackburn, a former civil servant with the Scottish government, estimates that free university tuition and the cuts in grants to lower-earning students means middle-class families and students will be \u00a320m a year better. 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