European undergraduate statistics rose, other than income falls

Among higher education as a public good and a public responsibility to change. Many European tree and a trend of shifting the burden of education costs on students.

There are many countries left in Europe that do not charge their domestic students, some form of tuition fees - some 19 of the 26 countries to a two-year research project organized by the European Students Union (ESU) and the name of the money the students' future (FINST), so .

Denmark, Finland, Malta, Slovenia, Sweden and Norway do still have tuition-free higher education systems, at least at undergraduate level. Austria is not necessary to identify tuition fees within the law, but universities can decide for themselves whether to charge tuition or not.

Several countries - including Hungary, Poland and Slovakia - to give them a place to help other students do not pay tuition fees, often as educational skills.

Concerns about international students

The position of countries - not the European Union in the European Economic Area - the other concerns.

Norway and Malta (from 26 countries said to FINST) the only countries do not charge international students special fees. Finland is the same as at the time, but there are pilot study in the consequences of introducing these fees and may not change the law in this regard.

FINST It also explains that other countries, such as Ireland and the United Kingdom, tuition fees in the study were higher than domestic or EU students, and this shows that have already adopted the doctrine of education as service and private good.

The money than has

It is easy to say money than make them. For the past 50 years, there has been a significant amount of the world's Europe. The increase can be carried out in a short time line - for example, Euro student 2009-Eurostat showed that the student members increased by 10% between 2003-04 and 2008-09.

Up in the study (basification) never to be followed by the rise in public spending; In recent years the level of public spending on education has been declining and in some countries have been scarred for nearly 50% of the entire budget for higher education institutions.