News: New fees prompt fears of cuts at Swedish universities
(22nd Aug 2011) - Despite scholarships designed to attract unusual students next the introduction of tuition fees, around Swedish universities may endure forced to cutting course of study offerings inwards the confront of declining unusual educatee enrollment, Clara Guibourg of The Local's report.
Great changes are afoot for unusual students at Sweden's universities subsequently the province abandoned its seat equally an educational free-for-all haven for students alongside shallow pockets from all corners of the globe.
Previously gratis for all applicants, Swedish universities receive got straightaway introduced tuition fees for unusual students, except for telephone commutation students as well as those from inside the European Union as well as Switzerland.
Tuition fees for international students volition attain betwixt 90,000-250,000 kronor ($14,000-39,000) per year, depending on the programme as well as school.
The introduction of the fees has caused applications from non-European students to plummet as well as given rising to concerns that around universities may endure forced to cutting surely programmes.
“With fewer students inwards the system, inwards the long term, nosotros may endure forced to cut the publish of programmes as well as courses that nosotros offer,” Eva Malmström Jonsson, vice president of Stockholm's Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), tells The Local.
As move of the introduction of the fees, the authorities too announced it would offering scholarships to ensure that talented students from developing countries wouldn't receive got to forgo the chance to study inwards Sweden due to high tuition costs.
Several experts remain unconvinced, however, most the merits of the novel laid up.
“This isn’t exclusively good,” Torbjörn Lindqvist, analyst at the Swedish National Agency for Higher Education (Högskoleverket), tells the The Local of the novel model.
While the Swedish authorities projects that retracting gratis higher instruction for non-EU students volition relieve the province roughly 500 1000000 kronor every year, it has precisely laid aside ninety 1000000 kronor per twelvemonth for scholarships to assist unusual students who lack the fiscal resources pay the novel fees.
“By no longer offering everyone - including those who are able to pay - gratis education, nosotros volition straightaway endure able to give special attending to students from countries alongside which nosotros receive got evolution cooperation as well as to especially gifted students,” said onetime higher instruction government minister Tobias Krantz inwards a controversy announcing the introduction of the fees.
(22nd Aug 2011) - Despite scholarships designed to attract unusual students next the introduction of tuition fees, around Swedish universities may endure forced to cutting course of study offerings inwards the confront of declining unusual educatee enrollment, Clara Guibourg of The Local's report.
Great changes are afoot for unusual students at Sweden's universities subsequently the province abandoned its seat equally an educational free-for-all haven for students alongside shallow pockets from all corners of the globe.
Previously gratis for all applicants, Swedish universities receive got straightaway introduced tuition fees for unusual students, except for telephone commutation students as well as those from inside the European Union as well as Switzerland.
Tuition fees for international students volition attain betwixt 90,000-250,000 kronor ($14,000-39,000) per year, depending on the programme as well as school.
The introduction of the fees has caused applications from non-European students to plummet as well as given rising to concerns that around universities may endure forced to cutting surely programmes.
“With fewer students inwards the system, inwards the long term, nosotros may endure forced to cut the publish of programmes as well as courses that nosotros offer,” Eva Malmström Jonsson, vice president of Stockholm's Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), tells The Local.
As move of the introduction of the fees, the authorities too announced it would offering scholarships to ensure that talented students from developing countries wouldn't receive got to forgo the chance to study inwards Sweden due to high tuition costs.
Several experts remain unconvinced, however, most the merits of the novel laid up.
“This isn’t exclusively good,” Torbjörn Lindqvist, analyst at the Swedish National Agency for Higher Education (Högskoleverket), tells the The Local of the novel model.
While the Swedish authorities projects that retracting gratis higher instruction for non-EU students volition relieve the province roughly 500 1000000 kronor every year, it has precisely laid aside ninety 1000000 kronor per twelvemonth for scholarships to assist unusual students who lack the fiscal resources pay the novel fees.
“By no longer offering everyone - including those who are able to pay - gratis education, nosotros volition straightaway endure able to give special attending to students from countries alongside which nosotros receive got evolution cooperation as well as to especially gifted students,” said onetime higher instruction government minister Tobias Krantz inwards a controversy announcing the introduction of the fees.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 tertiary of this money, to endure awarded past times the Swedish Institute, volition become to students from twelve countries inwards Africa, South America as well as Asia which which Sweden has long-term assistance cooperation to encompass both tuition fees as well as living costs, providing roughly ninety total scholarships per year.
The remaining threescore 1000000 kronor, however, volition become straight to the universities, where the funds volition endure distributed according to educatee trunk size as well as used equally the universities themselves meet fit.
As a result, it remains unclear how many international students may goal upwards receiving scholarships, equally around schools may render total scholarships, patch others programme on offering partial scholarships.
Linköping University inwards fundamental Sweden, for example, is providing 100 half-scholarships, important students must endure able to fund one-half of the studies on their own, patch KTH volition receive got roughly fourscore total scholarships instead, funded partly alongside province coin as well as partly alongside somebody funding.
“We’ve chosen to precisely honour total scholarships,” Malmström Jonsson explains, adding that students volition soundless involve to fund living costs on their own.
Despite authorities claims that the scholarships would render a helping manus to international students unable to pay tuition fees past times other means, ensuring that these students are prioritised inwards the admissions procedure has too proven hard inwards practice.
“It’s hard plenty to nautical chart a Swede, as well as fifty-fifty to a greater extent than hard if applicants come upwards from a province without whatever transparency or populace data,” Linköping University’s information managing director Lars Holberg said inwards a recent interview alongside Sveriges Radio (SR).
KTH’s Malmström Jonsson shares Holberg's assessment, proverb it “would endure really hard to assess” whether or non applicants' economical situations had been taken into concern human relationship inwards decisions most scholarship awards.
“What nosotros tin assess, reasonably, is students’ study results,” she adds.
Instead, Malmström Jonsson suggests students who cannot afford tuition fees to the evolution scholarships from the Swedish Institute.
However, since students are precisely eligible to apply for these scholarships if they come upwards from ane of 12 developing countries alongside which Sweden has evolution assistance cooperation, people unlucky plenty to endure a miserable students from rich countries volition endure hard pressed to observe whatever scholarship coin coming their way from the Swedish state.
“Scholarships are awarded based solely on academic excellence, so precisely the best students volition endure given scholarships,” explains Malmström Jonsson.
Meanwhile, the introduction of tuition fees has caused unusual educatee numbers to plummet inwards Sweden.
While over 16,000 non-EU students were enrolled at Swedish universities during the concluding academic year, fewer than 1,300 are registered for the 2011 tumble term.
“This was hardly exclusively unexpected,” said the National Agency for Higher Education’s Lindqvist, comparison alongside like developments inwards other countries, such equally Denmark, that late introduced tuition fees for surely groups.
Sweden’s formerly gratis instruction has been an of import selling betoken for attracting prospective students.
“Naturally if you’re trying to choose, ane instruction programme which is pretty goodness as well as too happens to endure gratis mightiness endure to a greater extent than appealing than around other programme which is too pretty good, but costs money,” says Lindqvist.
However, he emphasises, studying for gratis hasn’t been the precisely selling betoken for universities inwards Sweden.
“Nobody wants something substandard, fifty-fifty if it’s free,” he explains.
Declining international educatee numbers are a drive for worry at universities, however, prompting around universities to reckon cutting their course of study offerings.
“It’s going to streamline our instruction programmes,” says Malmström Jonsson of the effects of declining numbers of unusual students.
Lindqvist agrees that a diminished course of study offering is a existent guide chances for Swedish universities, adding that advanced courses as well as master’s programmes are inwards detail danger.
“International students really oft enroll inwards master’s programmes, so we’ll receive got to meet how many of these nosotros tin proceed to offer,” he says.
Lindqvist hopes that the high character of Swedish tertiary instruction volition nevertheless proceed to attract unusual students, despite the novel tuition fees.
“Many Swedish universities receive got goodness reputations, non because they’re free, but because the instruction they render is good. So we’ll receive got to piece of work towards continued character inwards our education,” he explains.
However, whatever reputation Swedish universities may receive got for character hasn't been plenty to counteract declining numbers of unusual students, forcing the country's institutions of higher learning to piece of work inwards a publish of ways to remain attractive internationally.
Stockholm University, for instance, has invested millions into a programme called Academic Initiative, alongside the sole aim of furthering internationalization at the school.
Meanwhile, KTH is planning to cooperate alongside a publish of Swedish companies to assist give unusual students a leg upwards on the Swedish labour market.
“We’re trying to do attractive packages, so that companies volition desire to render coin towards attracting unusual students who tin so bring together the society through summertime jobs or internships,” explains Malmström Jonsson.
Such cooperation remains inwards the planning stage, however, hence making it impossible to approximate how effective such measures may endure be.
So patch the Swedish province tin count the savings reaped from ditching gratis instruction to all academy students, it remains unclear how much Sweden may stand upwards to lose inwards the long term inwards damage of declining unusual educatee enrollment as well as diminished course of study offerings.
Source: http://www.thelocal.se/35690/20110822/
The remaining threescore 1000000 kronor, however, volition become straight to the universities, where the funds volition endure distributed according to educatee trunk size as well as used equally the universities themselves meet fit.
As a result, it remains unclear how many international students may goal upwards receiving scholarships, equally around schools may render total scholarships, patch others programme on offering partial scholarships.
Linköping University inwards fundamental Sweden, for example, is providing 100 half-scholarships, important students must endure able to fund one-half of the studies on their own, patch KTH volition receive got roughly fourscore total scholarships instead, funded partly alongside province coin as well as partly alongside somebody funding.
“We’ve chosen to precisely honour total scholarships,” Malmström Jonsson explains, adding that students volition soundless involve to fund living costs on their own.
Despite authorities claims that the scholarships would render a helping manus to international students unable to pay tuition fees past times other means, ensuring that these students are prioritised inwards the admissions procedure has too proven hard inwards practice.
“It’s hard plenty to nautical chart a Swede, as well as fifty-fifty to a greater extent than hard if applicants come upwards from a province without whatever transparency or populace data,” Linköping University’s information managing director Lars Holberg said inwards a recent interview alongside Sveriges Radio (SR).
KTH’s Malmström Jonsson shares Holberg's assessment, proverb it “would endure really hard to assess” whether or non applicants' economical situations had been taken into concern human relationship inwards decisions most scholarship awards.
“What nosotros tin assess, reasonably, is students’ study results,” she adds.
Instead, Malmström Jonsson suggests students who cannot afford tuition fees to the evolution scholarships from the Swedish Institute.
However, since students are precisely eligible to apply for these scholarships if they come upwards from ane of 12 developing countries alongside which Sweden has evolution assistance cooperation, people unlucky plenty to endure a miserable students from rich countries volition endure hard pressed to observe whatever scholarship coin coming their way from the Swedish state.
“Scholarships are awarded based solely on academic excellence, so precisely the best students volition endure given scholarships,” explains Malmström Jonsson.
Meanwhile, the introduction of tuition fees has caused unusual educatee numbers to plummet inwards Sweden.
While over 16,000 non-EU students were enrolled at Swedish universities during the concluding academic year, fewer than 1,300 are registered for the 2011 tumble term.
“This was hardly exclusively unexpected,” said the National Agency for Higher Education’s Lindqvist, comparison alongside like developments inwards other countries, such equally Denmark, that late introduced tuition fees for surely groups.
Sweden’s formerly gratis instruction has been an of import selling betoken for attracting prospective students.
“Naturally if you’re trying to choose, ane instruction programme which is pretty goodness as well as too happens to endure gratis mightiness endure to a greater extent than appealing than around other programme which is too pretty good, but costs money,” says Lindqvist.
However, he emphasises, studying for gratis hasn’t been the precisely selling betoken for universities inwards Sweden.
“Nobody wants something substandard, fifty-fifty if it’s free,” he explains.
Declining international educatee numbers are a drive for worry at universities, however, prompting around universities to reckon cutting their course of study offerings.
“It’s going to streamline our instruction programmes,” says Malmström Jonsson of the effects of declining numbers of unusual students.
Lindqvist agrees that a diminished course of study offering is a existent guide chances for Swedish universities, adding that advanced courses as well as master’s programmes are inwards detail danger.
“International students really oft enroll inwards master’s programmes, so we’ll receive got to meet how many of these nosotros tin proceed to offer,” he says.
Lindqvist hopes that the high character of Swedish tertiary instruction volition nevertheless proceed to attract unusual students, despite the novel tuition fees.
“Many Swedish universities receive got goodness reputations, non because they’re free, but because the instruction they render is good. So we’ll receive got to piece of work towards continued character inwards our education,” he explains.
However, whatever reputation Swedish universities may receive got for character hasn't been plenty to counteract declining numbers of unusual students, forcing the country's institutions of higher learning to piece of work inwards a publish of ways to remain attractive internationally.
Stockholm University, for instance, has invested millions into a programme called Academic Initiative, alongside the sole aim of furthering internationalization at the school.
Meanwhile, KTH is planning to cooperate alongside a publish of Swedish companies to assist give unusual students a leg upwards on the Swedish labour market.
“We’re trying to do attractive packages, so that companies volition desire to render coin towards attracting unusual students who tin so bring together the society through summertime jobs or internships,” explains Malmström Jonsson.
Such cooperation remains inwards the planning stage, however, hence making it impossible to approximate how effective such measures may endure be.
So patch the Swedish province tin count the savings reaped from ditching gratis instruction to all academy students, it remains unclear how much Sweden may stand upwards to lose inwards the long term inwards damage of declining unusual educatee enrollment as well as diminished course of study offerings.
Source: http://www.thelocal.se/35690/20110822/
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