Mini-Campus toll is back.

The way is free for up to $ 50 administrative fee per semester at the universities of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. You may use the exact amount to determine - and despite student protests, the framework is fully exploited.

 

The universities in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern must return the administration of student money. The council on Wednesday amended the country's Higher Education Act with the votes of the coalition factions of the SPD and the CDU.

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Universities must ensure that, inter alia, fees for registration, confirmation, placement of internships and Studienberatung demand. Also, a flat-rate administrative fee of up to $ 50 is possible. Free to the use of library, archives and data centers remain.

Education Minister Henry Tesch (CDU) in parliament said: "There is no tuition fees." Tesch asked the universities, the fees under "responsibly exploited."

In the previously existing Higher Education Act was the passage of the administration too vague, had 2008 the Higher Administrative Court in Greifswald complains. Therefore, the judge will rule in the past year tipped.

"Tuition fees through the backdoor"

When and how many of the approximately 37,000 students in Mecklenburg Western Pomerania, the fee of 50 euros per semester importance lies with the universities. Methling Wolfgang, Chairman of The Left, expects that the universities the fees to the maximum extent possible will be collected. Also the experience with the tuition fees in North Rhine-Westphalia, where the universities themselves to decide, shows that no university or FH additional revenue miss.

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Against the re-introduction had before Schweriner Landtag few dozen students demonstrated. Enrollment, computer use and test application are essential for the study, said student representative Henning Rehm of the University of Neubrandenburg. They should remain free of charge.

Opposition representatives criticized the return of the fee. The FDP Hans Kreher, described the administration as "tuition fees through the backdoor". The root of chronic under-funding of universities in the country will not be abolished.

Free East as a location advantage

Administrative charges, the majority of other federal states, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, Saxony-Anhalt and Schleswig-Holstein have agreed. The black-yellow coalition is currently planning in Bavaria, the unloved
50-euro fee to be abolished, they should be already in the summer semester 2009 is no longer paid. The legislation is still pending.

In the eastern federal states, there is, unlike in most western Germany, not a general tuition fees. A strong migrant West German student movement to the East has so far not triggered. Who but to study in the new federal states will do so often, the tuition fees of up to 500 euros per semester in their home countries to escape.

After all, for every fifth year students in the new Länder, which comes from the West, are the fees why not in the West to study, researchers identified the higher-Information System in a survey. The number of West German students was in 8900 with the Eastern countries is low, the toll-free studies in the new federal states are proving to as a location advantage.