Universities in Germany will begin offering tuition-free higher education beginning this week after Lower Saxony changed its policies to fit the remainder of the country.
“Tuition fees are socially unjust,” said Dorothee Stapelfeldt, senator for science in Hamburg, which scrapped its fees in 2012. “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.”
I think a lot of citizens in the U.S., being choked to death by massive student loans to pay for a college education that doesn’t get you a job would agree.
A spokesman for Germany’s Social Democrats, who are the leading political party in the nation, said during March’s elections, “Tuition fees keep young people from low-income families from studying and are socially ...
