That compared with 0.7% in Portugal, 0.4% in Greece and too few to count in Italy.Raising these numbers is not easy, of course, despite a reported jump in demand for German-language tuition in peripheral economies.
Though the German debate around tuition seems to have abated for now, academics and administrators predict that rising demands on the university system will eventually bring the fees back.
The program puts special emphasis on language courses and measures for helping new arrivals, with migrants to be given a voucher for 600 hours of German lessons and tuition in living skills.
Lower Saxony has become the last German state to abolish tuition fees for university students – even for international students.
Whether we will follow the German model and abolish tuition fees or take an American approach where fees often hit five digits depends not just on our politicians but the businesses, policy groups and researchers who maneuver them. .
Whether we will follow the German model and abolish tuition fees or take an American approach – where fees often hit five digits – depends not just on our politicians but the businesses, policy groups and researchers who manoeuvre them. .
The Federal Constitutional Court, the country's highest court, paved the way for tuition fees at German universities by ruling that states could regulate higher education on their own and could demand such fees.
Still, he added, "Italian students pay more tuition fees than their German, French and Spanish colleagues".
A week at Camp Suisse in the Valais region of Switzerland costs £990pp but that includes full-board accommodation, language tuition (choosing between French, German and Spanish), sports and activities including husky dog sledding on a glacier.
