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SNP warned their budget won't pass without ‘big changes’
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.”
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