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Re:66% of Americans say they want extended European-style va... by bjelkeman-again on Saturday August 26, 2023 @06:48AM (#37271569)
In Sweden you get a student loan and a grant to pay for housing, food, transport etc from CSN. [1] The grant is about 1/3 of the total sum.

I studied at university and my parents paid nothing. Even as an adult student could I go back and get the grant part. In Sweden the state pays for you to study.

[1] https://www.csn.se/languages/english/student-grants-and-loan...

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Re:66% of Americans say they want extended European-style va... by paulmd on Saturday August 26, 2023 @01:32PM (#37274926)
And this is in fact a good thing because the state benefits from higher tax revenue as a result of a skilled workforce.

The American obsession with making children pay for their own education is counterproductive at a social level and frankly revealing (and sickening) in terms of what it says about us as a country. God forbid someone “gets something for nothing”.

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