Only 25% of institution’s students are from Scotland, and they are more likely to be from working-class backgroundsFrom the first day Shanley Breese started her law degree at the University of Edinburgh, she encountered demeaning comments about her accent. She was told she was hard to understand and was asked to repeat herself in tutorials when she used words from the Scots language.“It was just a little thing to differentiate us and point it out … It meant that I didn’t participate in my tutorials,” she says. Continue reading…
Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/dec/26/scottish-students-at-edinburgh-university-start-support-group-to-counter-alienation
Author : Rachel Keenan
Publish date : 2024-12-26 18:08:00
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Scottish students at Edinburgh University start support group to counter ‘alienation’
