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Finland considering initiating tuition fees for non-EU students

Sunday, 06 January 2013
Most of Finnish MPs are in favour of third-level fees for students coming from outside the EU or the European Economic Area, who want to study in Finland.

Some 119 MPs from seven parliamentary groups signed an initiative calling for such fees, which the students could later deduct from their taxes, if they stay to work in Finland, the Finnish broadcaster Yle reports.

One initiative for this is that increasing Finnish education export and boosting teachers’ employment are cited as the driving force aims behind the initiative.

“We should capitalize on Finland’s high reputation in the field of education, and use this for the benefit of the national economy,” note MPs Arto Satonen from the National Coalition, Jukka Kärnä from SDP, Ari Torniainen from the Centre Party, and Reijo Tossavainen of the Finns Party, reports Yle.

Should this happens, Finland would follow the footstep of Sweden, which also instituted fees along similar line last year. But Finland has strategies to make non EU students to pay fees - first to set the level of fees to a level that will not repel student from coming to Finland but rather, to make the number to grow.

The strategy is also proposes that Finland’s developmental aid be used to pay for fees for students from developing countries, and that a grant system be set up for talented but poor students.
These are tool that Sweden lacks and for them foreign student numbers have been falling since tuition fees was instituted.
By Scancomark.com Team

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