How Germany Made Higher Education Free

According to the latest OECD data of 2011, the highest average annual membership fee of public universities

According to the latest OECD data of 2011, annual average tuition fee of public university

In 2015, the last state at the German border did not cancel the tuition fee, followed by 15 states and Germany joined the list of countries with annual average tuition fee of at least $ 0.

Germany cultivates the fourth largest gross domestic product in the world, uses only 25% for higher education, and offers tuition fees free of charge. In contrast, the United States uses 47% of its gross domestic product (the world's highest) for higher education, but its annual average tuition fee is ranked third in the world, which is also the student loan's I will bear 1.2 trillion dollars in debt. Weight (Some universities in the US have tuition fees free.)

The German model was established in 1949 based on efforts towards national finance aid, dissemination, public education, born from the ashes after the Second World War.

In 1971, the German Social Democratic Party established the state financial support system. This solved the problem of the university's class effectively.

In 2006, the federal government abolished the ban on fees, but most states refused to re-introduce fees, but in the next nine years I elected to abolish these costs one by one.

Duale Ausbildung (Dual Education) instructs and trains one of 356 vocational trainees to vocational school students in compliance with private enterprises when teaching students the theories and skills necessary for the necessary occupations I will.

(Workers' preparations may be wearing helmets) The proportion of people entering the labor market is low, and on-site training based on skills is required

Since the educational model includes both public institutions and private enterprises in charge of education of their workforce, Germany has also not risen in the unemployment rate, but in reality it has declined during the Great Depression 3 It is one of the countries.

Conclusion: By reducing low-performance for-profit groups, everyone in the US will be able to access public universities for free.

Germany is the world's largest free country, an economy that is receiving higher education. This makes them closest to free education in the United States. Schools should not make a serious debt. Schools should be able to prepare students effectively. Fortunately, we have a role model in Europe's most dynamic democracy.

Traditionally, France and Germany have free or almost free higher education (Glennerster, 2003). In 2002, Edelgard Bulhman of German Federal Minister for Education SPD promoted revision of the Higher Education Framework Law to prevent German state (Lünder) from exempting tuition fees. Her amendment was judged unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court in January 2005. This abbreviation, Germany introduced tuition fees: breakthrough changes in the higher education policy of the country. The six leaders under the conservative CDU / CSU opposition party rule challenged the revision before the treaty and announced the introduction of tuition fee shortly after the decision (Goethe Institute, 2005).

Many European countries already have access to free higher education. In recent years, Germany attracts many international students. This is mainly because German public universities do not charge tuition fees - not only German citizens but international students as well. There are university tuition fees to pay administrative expenses, but it is still considerably lower, between 150 and 250 euros. The quality of education in Germany is also the best in the world, there are more than 40 universities in the QS world university ranking and HSBC's educational quality is one of the top five countries in the world. Report "value of education"

Since higher education in Germany is mainly funded by the state, it is actually free to students both in Japan and overseas. Germany's Higher Education System is composed of about 400 organizations, divided into public "free tuition fees" institutions, and Germany has over 4 million students. In the past decade, Germany has politically strived to ban tuition fees nationwide; however, as a decentralized federal state, it is difficult to reach consensus among all 16 federal states. In October 2014, Germany has now reached an agreement that it provides free higher education to all students from all countries of origin.