Swedish agents to get paying students
Bad Danish experiences from 2006 with the introduction of tuition fees for internationals is behind a new plan by Swedish universities to find paying students from China, India, Iran and Pakistan by use of agents placed abroad.
This is according to Swedish site nyteknik.se.
The Swedish government has decided to let foreign students pay tuition from the Autumn of 2010.
Denmark lost 40 per cent
The same manoeuvre in Denmark cost Danish universities 40 per cent from non-European countries, nyteknik.se writes.
According to the media Dagens Nyheter, quoted on nyteknik.se, foreign students will pay between SEK 70,000 and SEK 150,000 (DKK 53.000 and DKK 114.000) for their studies a year.
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