Skip to main content
Donate to the 95 years appeal
SNP warned their budget won't pass without ‘big changes’
Coins and Scottish bank notes

CONCERNS are growing in Scotland that the SNP government’s draft Budget represents yet more real-terms cuts.

Despite assurances from Finance Secretary Shona Robison in her Budget statement to Holyrood that funding for Scotland’s troubled further and higher education sector as a whole would receive an inflation-beating 3.5 per cent boost from April, UCU Scotland official Mary Senior warned it “falls short of what is needed.”

She said: “Ultimately, this is another disappointing Budget, on the back of many others.”

The 95th Anniversary Appeal
Support the Morning Star
You have reached the free limit.
Subscribe to continue reading.
More from this author
Workers' Rights / 5 August 2025
5 August 2025
Scotland / 5 August 2025
5 August 2025
A general view of pupils sitting an exam at Lawrence Sheriff school Rugby, Warwickshire
Education / 5 August 2025
5 August 2025
Similar stories
Coins and Scottish bank notes
Britain / 28 January 2025
28 January 2025
University graduates
Britain / 6 December 2024
6 December 2024