Migrant students in Scotland win equal right to free tuition in landmark case

‘I’ve been living in Scotland since primary seven … I consider this country to be my home so to be told you don’t deserve the same treatment as your peers felt really discriminatory and unwelcoming,’ says Ola Jasim. Photograph: Handout

Students from migrant families in Scotland will have the same right to free university tuition as their peers, after a landmark court judgment which legal experts say highlights the positive impact of human rights legislation.

The court of session in Edinburgh found that Iraq-born Ola Jasim, who has lived in Scotland for nine years but missed out on the criteria for free tuition fees by 58 days, had her human rights breached.