All German universities will be free of charge

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    ALL GERMAN universities will be free of charge when term starts next week after fees were abandoned in Lower Saxony, the last of seven states to charge.
    “Tuition fees are socially unjust,” said Dorothee Stapelfeldt, senator for science in Hamburg, which scrapped charges in 2012.
    “They particularly discourage young people who do not have a traditional academic family background from taking up studies. It is a core task of politics to ensure that young women and men can study with a high quality standard free of charge in Germany.”
    “We got rid of tuition fees because we do not want higher education which depends on the wealth of the parents,” said **riele Heinen-Kljajic of the Green party, the minister for science and culture in Lower Saxony.

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