Timeline for Why do some European countries provide free higher education to foreigners?
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| Mar 30, 2021 at 20:35 | history | edited | divibisan |
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| Mar 30, 2021 at 18:08 | answer | added | Adam Gyenge | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 11, 2017 at 11:59 | comment | added | AkselA | @Racheet: Where's "here"? | |
| Jul 11, 2017 at 7:45 | comment | added | Blaisorblade | @Davor Most of us Italians might not know those philosophers (err, they're school program but not sure what that means on average), but they sure demand free education (and health-care, and so on), because we're used to proper welfare, because elites who did read those philosophers did provide welfare. (Just like now many US citizens now expect ObamaCare protections just because one president pushed for them). | |
| Jul 10, 2017 at 18:52 | comment | added | Bob Jarvis - Слава Україні | @Davor - here in the US we are at the moment experiencing the "rewards" of the choices of the lowest common denominator. :-( | |
| Jul 10, 2017 at 18:50 | comment | added | Bob Jarvis - Слава Україні | @Marc.2377 - I'm reminded of a quote from Robert Heinlein: "“Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as 'bad luck.'” | |
| Jul 10, 2017 at 14:12 | comment | added | armatita | @Davor Actually most EU constitutions were made taking into consideration several different schools of though. That includes the one mentioned by Racheet. For many the consequence is a direct constitutional right to education if you are a resident in the country. In the answers many seem to argue that there is some kind of political motivation behind free education for residents (any resident) but Its likely that the real (main) reason is historical/philosophical. From my point of view it makes sense to have a free educational system. At the very least it contributes to equality. | |
| Jul 10, 2017 at 13:47 | comment | added | cbeleites | ... and there are DAAD scholarshop programmes (among others with less/other restrictions) where "Candidates can prove their motivation is development-related and be expected to take on social responsibility and initiate and support processes of change in their personal and professional environment after their training/scholarship" | |
| Jul 10, 2017 at 13:47 | comment | added | cbeleites | @MohammadSakibArifin: However, I know of Norwegian scholarships (for the cost of living during the studies) that are granted on the condition that the student returns to their home country to work there after education is finished (with an option to pay back the scholarship case they want to stay in Norway). Which is meant to counteract possible brain drain. I've also known foreign students in Germany who held scholarships with similar conditions, ... | |
| Jul 10, 2017 at 13:03 | comment | added | Davor | @Racheet - I'm in Europe, too. Your average voter has never heard of Rousseau, Hobbes, Voltaire etc. We could discuss philosophy all day long, but politicians are elected by the lowest common denominator. | |
| Jul 10, 2017 at 11:44 | comment | added | Racheet | @Davor there is a major European school of thought (Rousseau, Hobbes, Voltaire etc) going back several hundred years that a country IS a humanitarian organisation. The "country as corporation" approach isn't so heavily entrenched here. | |
| Jul 10, 2017 at 10:35 | answer | added | Peteris | timeline score: 10 | |
| Jul 10, 2017 at 9:51 | comment | added | Davor | @corsiKa - of course not, it's a country, not a humanitarian organisation. You don't just randomly waste your taxpayers money on charity without political consequences. | |
| Jul 10, 2017 at 1:16 | comment | added | corsiKa | I guess just doing good things for the world isn't enough? | |
| Jul 10, 2017 at 0:11 | comment | added | Sakib Arifin | One word answer: Brain Drain. | |
| Jul 9, 2017 at 22:44 | answer | added | enderland | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jul 9, 2017 at 10:08 | answer | added | user15392 | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jul 9, 2017 at 7:21 | comment | added | Marc.2377 | I sometimes like to imagine what if Einstein, Bohr, Fermi, Dirac, Szilard, Rutherford, Chandrasekhar, and Tesla before them all (or perhaps even only one of them) didn't emigrate to the US. The same for Carl Sagan's parents, or Richard Feynman's, or Michio Kaku's, or... the list goes on and on... | |
| Jul 8, 2017 at 13:44 | comment | added | epa095 | Note that for Norway (and probably others) there are monetary requirements for getting a visa, you need roughly 12000$ in cash to get a visa (to prove that you can sustain yourself). This means that while the education itself is free, it is certainly not open for the world at large. And there is also the "detail" that almost all bachelors are in Norwegian, and you need to pass a quite hard Norwegian-test to be allowed in. So the free tuition is mostly relevant for "rich" (in a global sense) Master students, which might turn out to be a resource for Norway in the end. | |
| Jul 8, 2017 at 11:48 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackPolitics/status/883653978910859265 | ||
| Jul 8, 2017 at 11:22 | history | edited | Philipp♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 8, 2017 at 11:01 | answer | added | Thorsten S. | timeline score: 26 | |
| Jul 8, 2017 at 10:53 | comment | added | Dmitry Grigoryev | Note that while there are tuition fees in e.g. France, they are so low (typically < 1000€ / year, compared to > $10'000 / year in the US) that the cost of education is mostly determined by living expenses. | |
| Jul 8, 2017 at 10:22 | answer | added | JonathanReez | timeline score: 39 | |
| Jul 8, 2017 at 9:02 | answer | added | Relaxed | timeline score: 49 | |
| Jul 8, 2017 at 8:49 | comment | added | Relaxed | Note that at least one province is actually talking about introducing tuition fees for non-EU citizens. | |
| Jul 8, 2017 at 8:47 | history | edited | Relaxed | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 8, 2017 at 6:29 | history | asked | user4514 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |