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Posted on 11/19/2015 3:43:59 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Universities in Germany are now free of tuition fees for all including international students. Lower Saxony became the last of seven German states to abolish their tuition fees, which were already extremely low.
German universities had been charging for tuition since 2006. The measure proved unpopular, and German states began dropping them one by one. It is now all gone throughout the country, even for foreigners.
This means that now, both domestic and international undergraduate students at public universities in Germany are able to study in Germany for free, with just a small fee to cover administration -- usually between Euro 150 and Euro 250 -- and other living expenses costs per semester (food, transport, accommodation, entertainment, course materials and other necessities).
Germans barely had to pay for undergraduate study even before tuition fees were abolished. Semester fees averaged around Euro 500. It is now gone.
Free education is a concept that is embraced in most of Europe with notable exceptions like the U.K., where the government voted to lift the cap on university fees in 2010, and tripled the tuition fees therefore. The measure has reportedly cost more money than it brought in. The Guardian reported last March that students are failing to pay back student loans.
Maybe for now, learning German might be the best financial choice a high school student can make.
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READ MORE HERE:
http://www.economist.com/node/18898286
German universities: Mediocre, but at least they’re free
One by one, German states are scrapping university tuition fees
Free partying!!!
Forget about saving for tuition
buy your kid a black market Syrian passport and send them to Germany
Free housing, free food, free transportation, free shoplifting, welfare allowance to buy what you can’t steal, free healthcare and full tuition
I wouldn’t mind going back to school. Is there free beer?
how is England LOSING money by allowing tuition?
it’s not a grocery store.
If business drops off, you close some institutinos
and kids not paying their loans, well, how do they lose money with that? if it cost nothing what difference would it make?
kind of lefty article.
we have millions here taking nonsensical courses. imagine if school were free?
the study of braids on african american men and women, with a focus on the transgendered male to female and how it affect his/her social surroundings?
I have a friend in Sweden, a doctor, and her income tax is 64% of her salary. I almost passed out in shock. She accepts it, as do the rest of the Swedes. They give cradle to grave care for EVERYONE.
Socialism is political lobotomy.
“Free” for some.
Germany pre-selects students who are capable of doing college level work. Those not capable are tracked to vocational hands-on apprentice programs etc.
I don’t much about German undergraduate colleges but the sons and daughters of several of my friends are working on MS degrees in engineering at two German Universities.
My friends who are engineers tell me that the graduate programs are first rate. The kids are pretty smart. They are attending graduate programs that are taught completely in German.
The writer was doing fine until her ignorance burned through at the end.
Many of the graduate programs, and an increasing number of undergraduate classes, are taught in English.
For a couple of examples, see the University of Constance here:
http://www.international.uni-konstanz.de/en/international-students/study-opportunities/courses-taught-in-english/
or Regensburg
http://www.uni-regensburg.de/ur-international/english-taught-degree-courses/english-taught-master-degree-courses/index.html
In short, German is useful, but in many cases not necessary for a degree, particularly in technology and science.
The theory is that if the student sticks around and works for 5 years after graduation, they’ve made the tuition back in taxes.
My nephew is a student at Goethe University in Frankfurt.The highest rated University in continental Europe and a top 10 among potential employers.When he graduates with his Masters in geology he’s going to be in a good position to find a great job.
I think if you live and work in New York you pay 64%
”The great mass of the articles on which impost is paid is foreign luxuries, purchased by those only who are rich enough to afford themselves the use of them. Their patriotism would certainly prefer its continuance and application to the great purposes of the public education, roads, rivers, canals, and such other objects of public improvement as it may be thought proper to add to the constitutional enumeration of federal powers [emphasis added].” - Thomas Jefferson: 6th Annual Message, 1806.
”The rich alone use imported articles, and on these alone the whole taxes of the General Government are levied [emphasis added]. . . . Our revenues liberated by the discharge of the public debt, and its surplus applied to canals, roads, schools, etc., the farmer will see his government supported, his children educated, and the face of his country made a paradise by the contributions of the rich alone, without his being called on to spend a cent from his earnings [emphasis added].” - Thomas Jefferson to Thaddeus Kosciusko, 1811.
And consider that if the USA federal government was actually respecting prohibitions on taxing and spending as clarified by a previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting justices, that the states could consider amending the Constitution to give the feds the constitutional authority to tax and spend for free schooling like Jefferson had envisioned.
”Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” - Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
In the meanwhile, state lawmakers need to wise up to the federal governments illegal taxes and put a stop to it. If the states did so then the states would be able to raise the revenues to provide free schooling, depending on what a given states legal majority voters are willing to pay for.
Sounds like a very sound business model .... as long as “other people’s money” holds out.
64%!? Hell, that’s about what she’s pay here TOO.
Oh, but we’re ‘supposed’ to be a Republic, steeped in Freedom and Liberty? Yeah, about that last part....at least 100 yrs. dead.
Not a bad theory.
Is it that high? Surely not for everyone. The poor and middle class couldn't afford to live there.
But, you seem to know.
Our taxes were 40%, with two salaries, and I think that was high. Now, as a retiree, I haven't re-figured.
When my husband worked for ARAMCO, the IRS gave all U.S. employees the deal: NO FEDERAL INCOME TAX ON THE FIRST $80,000.00 made, working in the KSA. We cleaned up.
Of course, that was years ago. I don't know what the tax break would be now.
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