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May 17, 2012
Published: 12 Nov 09 10:37 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/national/20091112-23221.html
As student protests across Germany continue, Education Minister Annette Schavan on Thursday called for states to quickly enact reforms that have already been agreed upon.
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There are no common degrees at all! The madness with specificity is the reason why thousand of skilled people are jobless!..
2. All students, who pay nothing , should be forced out of school after a limited period of time (say, 6 years) and should be required to take a minimum of class hours each week, semester or year. After all, they are blocking up a free seat in a University until they move their lazy butts out of it. If they fail to do this, they should be expelled.
Yes mprulez, 10 years old children here already screened who are qualified for university .That is Germany, accept it or leave it!
ha!ha! what mum and dad are paying? 500 euro/semester? you think that's the real cost of the university? I well tell you that's only a very small percentage from the whole cost of university payment without the tax payers expense (mum and dad is bankrupt!).The worst is,here in Berlin there are foreign students coming to university where the german taxpayers paying for them because they cannot afford from their own country.
"The worst is,here in Berlin there are foreign students coming to university where the german taxpayers paying for them because they cannot afford from their own country."
BLOODSUCKERS BUNCH!
What's wrong if the german students pay nothing or pay small for the University?Anyway the parents of this students are tax payers.What we don't like when foreign students come and make a ride of the privileges of Uni here from the German tax payer expense.
Yes in the Uni where I work there are foreign students,who come from a country where uni education is far expensive than here in Germany, but I hope they realise that our education here is almost free,it's because there's a big money put on it from the tax payers and to make it clear we don't work hard and pay this taxes so that this people from other countries who cannot afford uni there will come and make a free ride.
http://schoolselekt.com/2011/05/study-in-finland-free-of-cost/
http://schoolselekt.com/2011/05/study-in-norway-free-of-cost/