Foreign student fees proposal dropped

[daryl]

According to today's Helsingin Sanomat, the Finnish government has scrapped plans to charge fees of between 3,500 and 12,000 euros per term to degree students from outside of the EU/EEA region:

http://www.hs.fi/kotimaa/artikkeli/Hall ... 5219367730

Apparently we have my comrades in the Finnish Social Democratic Party to thank for burying this ill-conceived proposal.

My own opinion is that it is far more intelligent to encourage foreign students to pay for their education by taking jobs in Finland and remaining here as migrant workers.

daryl

[Hank W.]

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old news but the HS actually cared to elaborate a bit further.

I am still saying though that they will re-introduce it at some point.

[sammy]

My own opinion is that it is far more intelligent to encourage foreign students to pay for their education by taking jobs in Finland and remaining here as migrant workers.

... having learnt Finnish first, of course

Anyway, contrary to what the HS article says, as far as I know there are no tuition fees for non-EU students currently in Sweden, only in Denmark (?). The western neighbours are maybe planning something however... but I would not wonder if the plan were scrapped there as well.

But this is old news already, spotted by the ever-vigilant Hank yesterday (see under "studying in F"...)

[Hank W.]

Well it is a question that has been of some interest lately.

Please rest assured that with any government proposal the flower-hatted do-gooder aunties and country hicks will botch any legislation up so that the end result is contrary to any wit or logic. Then in a few years someone with the wits will rehash it into something "temporary" that is then taken onwards as "Finnish Logic" and hacked into stone.

I mean, tuition fees for non-EU... yeah, the car tax was a "temporary" thing in 1958 too