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: Monday, April 16th, 2007 11:14 am (UTC)I guess people are just not able to see a difference between being responsible and having fault anymore. Or rather: They know the difference but the fact is that whoever is "responsible" as in being major and cognizant also usually is responsible in the sense of accountable, answerable and being held liable for.
Peole just LOVE it to be taken seriously and to be seen as grown-up and mature and therfore also major and cognizant and they love it even more when they somebody wants them to do something because they seem to be "the person" for doing it.
BUT nobody likes, at all, to accept that with every ounce of being grown-up and major and "the person to do something" they are also responsibley and being held liable for their own actions.
People in this country seem to fear it very much.
Sadly, this "pestilence" also affected me but I see it and try to work against it. I am just afraid of making mistakes and letting people down, not more.
Others however are...well, they want to be OH-SO grown-up and being treated like one of the permium adults and mature people the world has ever seen and when they then do a mistake or act up they refuse to accept that they should be in only 1% responsible for anything.
And they often don't do that out of the fear of letting people down but they really believe that they are NOT to be held responsible at all. They REALLY BELIEVE. Can you imagine that?!? ARRRGH!