Students threaten 'angry autumn.' (higher education funding in Germany)

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Germany's higher education budget has been strongly criticised for being insufficient and placing a large funding burden on poorer students via high-interest student loans. The minister for education, research and training, Jurgen Ruttgers, plans to allocate an extra 500 million Deutschmarks for research in 1996, although his overall budget has only been increased by 90 million Deutschmarks and many complain other areas will subsequently have reduced funding. Both universities and politicians oppose the student loan plan as loans are only taken out by 19% of students.

Finance, Education, Higher, Higher education, College students, State aid to higher education

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Tuition fees make their mark

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The University of Witten-Herdecke is the only private German institution to be awarded university status. The university aims to provide a better education than the state universities. It has 600 students studying medicine, natural sciences, dentistry and economics. The students do not even have to pay fees, as they receive state support grants.

Practice, Private universities and colleges

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Germany joins battle for Nobels

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Nobel Prize-winning German physicist Wolfgang Ketterle is one of a stream of German scientists who have emigrated to the United States, where they have conducted their prize-winning research. According to the German education ministry, one in seven top German scientists emigrates to the US.

United States, International aspects, Social policy, Education, Scientists, Nobel laureates

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