Baden-Wuerttemberg.

The Ländle has a very strong friend fees as well as Minister of Science and vigorous opponent: With students tried mass actions, to stop the collection.

 

Number of students:

244,618 (in the winter semester 2005/2006)

Current fees:

$ 500 per semester since the summer semester 2007

TUITION FEES

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Position:

Science Minister Peter Frankenberg (CDU) is one of the fans vehementesten fees and annual fees on prepared models. At the beginning of September 2005, Baden-Wuerttemberg was the first state to a draft law, which in December 2005.

Students had to pay the first time in the summer of 2007 - landeseinheitlich 500. In exceptional cases such as child rearing, disability or an exceptional talent, there is a fee waiver. Excluded are also PhD students and students in the practice or vacation semester and students with at least two siblings, which now does not matter whether they still go to school, work, study or even just to have around the world.

If the money can not afford, is entitled to a loan - at a rate of about six per cent - in the state L-Bank. The repayment starts two years after graduation, when the monthly income more than 1060 euros, net amount (for a non-earning spouse will add 480 Euros, 435 Euros per child). The monthly rates are 50, 100 or 150 euros. Also Bafög beneficiary must pay.

Officially, the universities will receive additional fees, they may be officially the money solely for the improvement of teaching use. Some universities still caused by a particularly bizarre-use plans for creative attention - such as the University of Freiburg with their thoughts games, the extra euros just for the heating issue, in other words, through the chimney to blow.

In Baden-Wuerttemberg to defend charges particularly resolute opponents. A nation-wide boycott movement failed in the end is too weak to participate, and only in three small colleges Karlsruhe made enough students and then renounced it, thrown out because they like the risk was too great. But, especially in Stuttgart and Freiburg students covered the administrative actions with mass one. In the first process it collects slippers, but it does not want to give in.

Prognosis:

The collection is running, sweeping success of the students before the court are not very likely. As in some other states, the full revenue flowing into the doctrine. Minister Frankenberg asks that the public funding of universities "is not in connection with the fees" will be reduced. Guarantees that he can give as little as any other science minister.

Therefore the forecast: Immediately save the country at universities, rather that a certain amount of shame deadline. But the universities will be after the introduction of the fees are not much better off than before because they are by contract with higher savings targets expertly tied up and gagged are - triumphed at the end of the finance ministers.

JOL