{"id":46898,"date":"2026-02-17T06:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T06:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/free-tuition-under-threat-without-revenue-boost-report-warns\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T06:55:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T06:55:00","slug":"free-tuition-under-threat-without-revenue-boost-report-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/free-tuition-under-threat-without-revenue-boost-report-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"Free tuition under threat without revenue boost, report warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">However, the report found that to continue to fund such policies, the Scottish government will have to raise tax revenues &#8211; either by raising rates or boosting economic performance &#8211; and improving efficiency in public services. Otherwise, the IFS said, ministers would have to make cuts. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/ckgz1wqpv0po?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>However, the report found that to continue to fund such policies, the Scottish government will have to raise tax revenues &#8211; either by raising rates or boosting economic performance &#8211; and improving efficiency in public services. Otherwise, the IFS said, ministers would have to make cuts. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[757,758,1420,5821,5448,6575,346],"class_list":["post-46898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scotland","tag-boost","tag-free","tag-report","tag-revenue","tag-threat","tag-tuition","tag-warns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46900,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46898\/revisions\/46900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}