All German universities are now completely free to both Germans and all other international students. The last German state to charge tuition at its universities struck down the fees this week. In explaining why Germany made this move, Dorothee Stapelfeldt, a Hamburg senator, called tuition fees unjust and added that they discourage young people who do not have a traditional academic family background from taking up study. It is a core task of politics to ensure that young women and men can study with a high quality standard free of charge in Germany. While German students were successfully lobbying for an end to the newly introduced fee system, Canadian students have seen more of the costs of education downloaded from taxpayers and onto them directly, with tuitions tripling over the past 20 years, according to a recent report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternative
Posted on: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 16:35:45 +0000
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