Foreigners are to pay at point universities in the future

If Germans pay abroad fees, students without European Union-passport are to do that in the future also here. Two rectors demand that. Are talents scared off in such a way?



Overfilled lecture-rooms or long latencies, then the experience of many students in Germany looks. Remedy is possibly to be created at the expense from at present more than 200,000 visiting students from the foreign country. That suggested anyhow the president of the technical University of Munich (TUM), Wolfgang A. Herrmann, in an interview with Münchner Merkur. Whether in America, Australia, England or Switzerland – in all world universities take high fees, also from German students. Therefore international applicants will not even weight “”, if they are asked in this country to the cash, say Herrmann. It thinks the majority of the foreigners at its university of students without European Union-passport. For European Union-Bürgergilt however same right as for German high school graduates, who must pay study fees starting from coming winter semester in no more Federal state.
Herrmann is not first and not the only one, which pleads for a foreigner toll on the campus. Those demands likewise its colleague of the technical university Aachen, Ernst Schmachtenberg, in the discussion with TIME of ONLINE. And one year ago also the chairman of the Green parliamentary group in the federal state parliament of Baden-Wuerttemberg for fees already promoted. The TUM president aims now at the coalition agreement of the Federal Government. Therein it means: “By the end of the decade we want to ensure that the number of foreign studying is increased by approximately a third on approximately 350,000.” Remains contentious, who is to pay that. Already the support of foreigners at German universities is often unsatisfactory. For the universitypolitical spokeswoman of the SPD state tag opposition in Bavaria, Isabell Zacharias, is certain: Herrmann is to ask not “students from Turkey or China to the cash, but his Prime Ministers Seehofer”, thus the taxpayer. More than twenty percent of the students are foreigners Hermann remain sceptical, as much giver mood from the policy is to be expected to. More than twenty percent of its students are foreigners, whom prospective customers “from Erding, mix, Fürstenfeldbruck”, the region or completely Germany displace. He is afraid the question about a ratio, if not EUROPEAN Union citizens in Germany would study further free of charge. The president of the Munich Ludwig Maximilians university does not divide this concern, at its university studies however also relatively few foreigners. Therefore Herrmann would like that each university was to decide in the fee question. The TUM anyhow needs the large number of international talents and excellent equipment, in order to be able to keep up as research university in the world leaders.