NICOLA Sturgeon has said she is “gobsmacked” by Scottish Labour’s claims the SNP Government was effectively barring people from “ordinary” backgrounds from courses at one of the country’s top universities.
She accused Labour’s education spokesperson Michael Marra of criticising her for “the fact that there are too many [pupils from deprived areas] going to university”.
It comes after Marra revealed data through The Scotsman newspaper that nine courses at Edinburgh University had no Scottish students enrolled other than those from either the most-deprived areas or from underperforming schools.
