The Scottish Government

RESPONDEE INFORMATION FORM: DRAFT STUDENT FEES (SPECIFICATION) (SCOTLAND) ORDER 2005

Please complete the details below and attach it with your response. This will help ensure we handle your response appropriately:

Name: JOHN McCARNEY, HEAD OF SERVICE: SCHOOLS SUPPORT

Postal Address: EAST AYRSHIRE COUNCIL, COUNCIL HEADQUARTERS, LONDON ROAD, KILMARNOCK

1. Are you responding as: (please tick one box)

(a) an individual (go to 2a/b)

(b) on behalf of a group or organisation x (go to 2c)

2a. INDIVIDUALS:

Do you agree to your response being made available to the public (in SE library and/or on SE website)?

Yes (go to 2b below)

No, not at all

2b. Where confidentiality is not requested, we will make your response available to the public on the following basis ( please tick one of the following boxes)

Yes, make my response, name and address all available

Yes, make my response available, but not my name or address

Yes, make my response and name available, but not my address

3 ON BEHALF OF GROUPS OR ORGANISATIONS:

Your name and address as respondees will be made available to the public (in the SE library and/or on SE website). Are you content for your response to be made available also?

Yes x

No

4. We will share your response internally with other SE policy teams who may be addressing the issues you discuss. They may wish to contact you again in the future, but we require your permission to do so. Are you content for the Scottish Executive to contact you again in the future for consultation or research purposes?

Yes x

No

5. East Ayrshire Council welcomes the opportunity to respond to this consultation paper. We have consulted within the Authority and drawn on the expertise of senior managers within the secondary school system to shape our response.

6. We would support Option 3 - to implement the proposed increase in fees. We believe that this would be consistent with the course of action that we recommended regarding the previous consultation on levels of Cross Border Flow of Students. We also wish to ensure that Scots domiciled students would not be displaced without HEIs having additional pressure placed on their resources and without additional public funds having to be invested. Thus, we support Option 3.

7. Please contact the named individual if you require any further information.