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US Scholar Encourages Slovaks to Introduce University Tuition Fees
Tuesday 18 May 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, May 18 (TASR) - Visiting Professor of Economics at Ohio University Richard Vedder recommended that Slovakia drop free full-time university studies and follow the example of the USA and institute across-the-board tuition fees as a way of improving academic results.
Within a decade Slovakia will be forced to do this anyway, as it will need funding for its increasingly aging population, he said.
Alluding to the fact that Slovak full-time students enjoy free tuition (even at private universities), he said that people would get better value through paid-for studies.
Speaking at the close of the "Slovakia Halfway Through Reforms" conference organised by Trend weekly in conjunction with Cato Institute in Bratislava, Vedder said less well-off students in America are able to take out a federal loan or receive scholarships, as the US administration invests heavily in education.
He rejected suggestions that private schools lend the impression that students easily acquire a degree, but admitted that certain schools, those without history and unconcerned about their future, do business on conferring degrees in the US.
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