| Description | Consultation paper on the principle of abolishing the Graduate Endowment Fee for those students graduating from Scottish Higher Education from 1 April 2007 onwards.
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| ISBN | (Web Only) |
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| Website Publication Date | July 13, 2007 |
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CONSULTATION ARRANGEMENTS
Responses
16. Please send your response to:
Jacqueline McKellan
Scottish Executive
Higher Education and Learner Support Division
Europa Building
450 Argyle Street
Glasgow
G2 8LG
Or by email to:
Jacqueline.McKellan@scotland.gsi.gov.uk
17. If you have any queries please contact Jacqueline McKellan on 0141 242 0235
18. This consultation, and all other Scottish Executive consultation exercises, can be viewed online on the consultation web pages of the Scottish Executive website at http://www.scotland.gov.uk/consultations. You can telephone Freephone 0800 77 1234 to find out where your nearest public internet access point is.
19. The Scottish Executive now has an email alert system for consultations (SEConsult: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/consultations/seconsult.aspx). This system allows stakeholder individuals and organisations to register and receive a weekly email containing details of all new consultations (including web links). SEconsult complements, but in no way replaces Scottish Executive distribution lists, and is designed to allow stakeholders to keep up to date with all Scottish Executive consultation activity, and therefore be alerted at the earliest opportunity to those of most interest. We would encourage you to register.
Organisations consulted
20. This consultation paper is being issued to organisations that have a specific interest in the Graduate Endowment fee, as detailed in Annex C. Anyone who has an interest is encouraged to respond. It would be very useful if individuals could indicate in which country they are ordinarily resident when responding to the consultation. This is discretionary and entirely the choice of those who respond.
Alternative formats
21. The text of this consultation paper will be made available, on request, in alternative formats. Anyone requiring the document in an alternative format should contact Jacqueline McKellan at the above address.
Handling your response
22. We need to know how you wish your response to be handled and, in particular, whether you are happy for your response to be made public. Please complete and return the Respondent Information Form enclosed with this consultation paper as this will ensure that we treat your response appropriately. If you ask for your response not to be published we will regard it as confidential and will treat it accordingly.
23. All respondents should be aware that the Scottish Executive is subject to the provisions of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 and would therefore have to consider any request made to it under the Act for information relating to responses made to this consultation exercise.
Next steps in the process
24. Where respondents have given permission for their responses to be made public (see the enclosed Respondent Information Form), these will be made available to the public in the Scottish Executive Library by 5 October 2007 and on the Scottish Executive consultation web pages by 12 October 2007. We will check all responses where agreement to publish has been given for any potentially defamatory material before logging them in the library or placing them on the website. You can make arrangements to view responses by contacting the Scottish Executive Library on 0131 244 4552. Responses can be copied and sent to you, but a charge may be made for this service.
25. Following the closing date, all responses will be analysed and considered along with any other available evidence to help us to reach a decision. We aim to issue a report on this consultation process by the end of November 2007.
Comments and complaints
26. If you have any comments about how this consultation exercise has been conducted, please send them to:
Jacqueline McKellan
Scottish Executive
Higher Education and Learner Support Division
2nd Floor
Europa Building
450 Argyle Street
Glasgow
G2 8LG
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