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Re:US Workers Are Highly Taxed If You Count Premiums by rch on Monday April 08, 2019 @07:47PM (#19610301)
In the Swiss system (as I understand it) it's about $600 to attend classes, but if you don't hit the minimum on the semester exams twice, then you're done in the country.

If you miss it the first round then there is a massive incentive to transfer or find an easier program, otherwise you face the prospect of being forced to go abroad to complete a degree.

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Re:US Workers Are Highly Taxed If You Count Premiums by germinalphrase on Monday April 08, 2019 @08:38PM (#19610565)
Do you have any idea if this causes grade inflation to protect below-to-average, but otherwise responsible, students?
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Re:US Workers Are Highly Taxed If You Count Premiums by Foobar8568 on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @01:33AM (#19612074)
I would tend to believe it does considering the people I work with from university like the EPFL. But more generally, it might be a today problem where people has to be hand carried to do anything with 0 critical thinking.
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