FEBlog Elmer Sterken: "Better to raise all tuition fees by € 700 than to fine slow students"
"The government plan for a € 6,000 fine for slow students and their universities will be counterproductive", FEB dean Elmer Sterken states in his FEBlog, "The plan will spark off a tax-avoiding game lowering the quality of education and students avoiding difficult programmes. However, it's not the slow students who will be costly: it's the unmotivated student who will be expensive. If a government budget cut is unavoidable, the better solution is a general tuition fee raise of € 700."
>>> Read the entire blog entry and comment at: www.rug.nl/feb/feblog
| Last modified: | 25 October 2019 11.09 a.m. |
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