Re:Cédric Villani: mathematician challenging to be Paris mayor
by mytailorisrich on Thursday October 31, 2019 @06:03AM
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How much would these students be willing to pay? How much does it cost the university to provide the tuition?
I'm in the UK. Universities charge £10k+ a year to foreign students (US, Australia, etc do the same) and they have queues of them waiting to sign up. There are plenty of foreign students willing to pay thousands of euros a year and it is madness for France to subsidise them, then complain that universities lack resources.
Nothing prevents some of the money from being used to provide scholarships to bright foreign students who couldn't otherwise afford it.
This needs to be looked at with pragmatism. The position that tuition has to be free is ideological, not pragmatical.
I'm in the UK. Universities charge £10k+ a year to foreign students (US, Australia, etc do the same) and they have queues of them waiting to sign up. There are plenty of foreign students willing to pay thousands of euros a year and it is madness for France to subsidise them, then complain that universities lack resources.
Nothing prevents some of the money from being used to provide scholarships to bright foreign students who couldn't otherwise afford it.
This needs to be looked at with pragmatism. The position that tuition has to be free is ideological, not pragmatical.