Blogs There has been some really good news today , with the Scottish Government announcing big improvements in the financial support of Scottish higher education students in colleges and universities. This is something that we have been campaigning on for over five years now, and is the result of the hard work and campaigning of hundreds of students over the last few years. We can now proudly say that our campaigning has resulted in us having the best system of financial support for higher education students anywhere in the UK . And at the same time today's announcement removes tuition fees for the poorest part-time students - removing an anomaly that we have frequently highlighted the unfairness of. Back in 2007, NUS Scotland came up with the idea of a '7,000 minimum income guarantee', to reflect the fact that students were being forced to drop-out, struggle by or simply never start in education because of the lack of money in their pockets . In 2010 we launched what is still one of the biggest student surveys to ever take place in Scotland, and that resulted in NUS Scotland's Still in the Red report. That report showed really clearly just how much of a financial struggle it is for many students to make ends meet through their studies - forced to work part-time, borrow commercially or to even drop out of their education. It also highlighted that tuition fees were really a big and unfair barrier for part-time students. There was