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The question is how much it costs to fund higher education. The money goes via the students or the universities but it still needs to be paid. Even in my day the 3k I paid for tuition didn't cover what it cost the university to run my course. With the drop in foreign students (who pay a lot more) universities have a funding crisis and a gap to be filled.
I assume Scottish students don't get the full amount of they go to an English university? They have to take out loans to?
Scottish universities are free to all Scottish residents. English students (or students living in other parts of the UK) have to pay a similar rate to other UK universities, and international students pay much more.
Scottish residents going to UK universities outside of Scotland have to pay the same rate as other UK residents. It's only Scottish universities that are free and only for Scottish residents.
None of this is the "gotcha" you seem to be looking for. Scotland uses its taxes to give free education to Scottish residents. It wouldn't be reasonable to expect Scotland to provide free education for the whole of the UK, as that is a much larger population than that from which they draw tax revenue.
England has a much larger tax pool (both in absolute magnitude and proportionally to the population) than Scotland, so what really doesn't make sense is any argument that England can't afford to pay for the education of English residents, when Scotland apparently can.