I hate hate hate the Universität Hamburg

[mothwing]

So they introduced tuition fees this semester: €500.

So there is the additional fee for the ticket, etc. That used to be around €156, in the good old days, does anyone remember those?
A few years ago, those were raised (and we had to pay an additional €50. This was of course greeted with an outcry and a threat that anyone not able to pay would not be readmitted for the next semester.).The reason they gave for the introduction of the raise was that it was an added administrative fee. (To be fair, they could really do with the money. Most of the people working there are complete idiots, maybe more money would attract people who can actually read).

In addition to that, those additional fee has been raised gradually, always for a few euros, and next semester we'll have to pay another ten Euroes, which gives us €242 additional fees PLUS €500 tuition fees = €742.

So, when I started my course it used to be €156, and now it's €742.

Slight difference, no?

That they raised the bloody additional fees the semester we've got to pay tuition fees is absolutely LUDICROUS.

It's obvious that they're going to raise them until we've got to pay €1000 per semester, but even with the €500 there are so many students who have to end their course of studies, and there are no ways of really funding your course of studies. The credits they planned to introduce don't really work for everybody, and our state student support system which never really work that well in the first place doesn't even take the fees into account as far as I know.

In Glasgow, I wouldn't even have MINDED paying the fees because everything was just ... better, and I didn't even have to.
It is also an open secret that close to NOTHING will change after these fees have been paid because they don't go to the department but are used God only knows were.

This place just SUCKS.

Comments

[moonystone.livejournal.com]

It makes me so sick.

Yesterday, the professor didn't turn up for his lecture without notice of given reason. And I looked at the full room and the empty spot up front and thought about how we all have to pay 500€ for nothing in return.

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

WTF??? That's rich.

The great thing about stuff like that is that we can't even complain. I mean - seriously, who to?
"Professor Greineeeeer, your colleague (and good friend) did not come to class yesterday!!! Do something to punish them."

Would work. Uh-hu.

[moonystone.livejournal.com]

Oh, Greiner is one who would listen. When he found out that the newbies didn't have an introductory lecture in the first week because the professor (Rodenberg) was still in Vietnam helping some uni there, he was absolutely livid!

But that professor who didn't turn up was a history guy I haven't heard of yet :( Let's hope he'll remember his lecture next week.

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

WTF? I'd have been livid about that as a newbie. But why didn't anyone know about that?

It can't be that hard to tell people when you'll be back in the country, for heaven's sake.

[moonystone.livejournal.com]

They could've known, it's been announced on the homepage for some time beforehand. Still sucks, though, as the whole lesson plan has to be delayed now and the last topic probably won't be attended.
Actually, no one turned up a week later because they thought the first time didn't take place. I assume they just applied for all courses in case they didn't get a place in one of them. Stupid Stine.