I hate hate hate the Universität Hamburg
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mothwingSo 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.
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.
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Date: Friday, April 13th, 2007 08:29 am (UTC)I hope it will.
What drives me insane is that other universities manage to even APPEAR to be seriously considering to do something productive with our money. I don't know if they will and I doubt it, but they even make the effort to pretend they will, making it possible to believe that they MIGHT.
Here, it's business as usual. The strange thing is that most departments (except for mine) have started planning as though they already had received the fees, therefore there are a few extra sessions, extra workshops, that kind of thing. Mine did not even offer more courses, although the fees of two students alone would be more than enough to offer the same course twice.