There’s no point in my writing the same answer I gave last year as to why the above headline is largely meaningless in the Scottish context as so many of our students enter Higher Education via articulation schemes between FE colleges and universities. This approach, not available in England, actually improves access to Higher Education by cutting the travel and accommodation costs for up to two years, thus overall debt, of Scottish students. Here’s the link to what I wrote last year:
Nothing has changed.
Talking-up Scotland 
John I am not a Mail reader but seeing this headline thought I would have a look.
Overtime deals let doctors rake in up to £600,000 in just ONE year in a bid to clear the NHS waiting list backlog
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4190416/Overtime-deals-let-doctors-rake-600-000.html#ixzz4XiD79FCi
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Hospital doctors are earning up to almost £600,000 a year under extraordinary deals to clear NHS waiting lists, an investigation shows.
One consultant received £456,000 in overtime, a £35,700 ‘lifetime’ bonus and £2,900 for being on-call last year – on top of a £84,000 basic salary.
He works at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals in Preston and agreed to do extra clinics at the evenings and weekends to clear a backlog of patients needing treatment.
I assume RS will be all over this story as they have been about NHS Scotland ? as they were about the £1500 paid to a nurse for one shift.
Sorry I don’t know how to do links but I am sure you will hold your nose and have a read of this.
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Thanks Scott. Kind of puts things in perspective doesn’t it?
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I expect a whole week of Call Kaye to be devoted to this, just like they expose all the MP’s and unelected peers who obtain benefits from NHS privatisation.
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