Podcast #7 – International Tuition Fee Policies: An Interview with Gabriele Marconi, 11/05/2017

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🗓️ 11 May 2017

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What are the policy options in terms of foreign students’ fees, and how do they relate to current political events? Current political events with an impact on immigration – like Brexit and elections with xenophobic candidates in Europe – influence the way societies and governments behave towards international students. OECD policy analyst Gabriele Marconi took a closer look at the different tuition fee policies in a new "Education in Focus" brief. Tino Brömme asked Mr Marconi for ESNA Media: What is the main reason for goverments to set higher fees for international students? What importance have fees for international students’ choices? Just one week ago, students of the Free University of Brussels and of the Catholic University of Leuven occupied their respective rectorates for six days forcing them to abandon their plans to raise the fees for international students. What are his observations about this? Why has Germany a zero tuition fee policy? Interview and Editing: Tino Brömme Music: zende Music, Bologna ESNA European Higher Education News, Berlin www.esna.tv Download the OECD study: http://www.oecd.org/edu/skills-beyond-school/educationindicatorsinfocus.htm

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0:00.0	Welcome to the seventh ESNA podcast on higher education and science policy.
0:06.1	Today we are talking with Gabriele Marconi, policy analyst at the OECD in Paris,
0:11.5	about the latest edition of education indicators in focus.
0:15.6	Mr. Marconi, you produce about 10 of these policy briefs every year
0:20.4	which try to use the OECD data from
0:23.2	education at a glance in an interesting and timely way.
0:27.1	So, which kinds of tuition fee policies emerged from your analysis?
0:32.3	There are remarkable differences across EUCD countries, both with regard to national and to international students.
0:39.3	There are some countries which simply have free higher education policies.
0:43.3	These include, for example, Norway or Slovenia, and in these countries, all students study for free, no matter their nationality.
0:52.3	On the other extreme, we have countries that have substantial tuition fees for national students,
0:58.5	for example, New Zealand and Canada.
1:01.5	In these countries, national students pay about 4,000 US dollar on average per year for a public
1:07.9	institution bachelor program. And in these countries, there is also a differentiation in the policies
1:14.6	between national and international students.
1:17.6	International students in these countries pay above $16,000 US dollar per year.
1:23.6	In between these extremes, there are many different policies.
1:26.6	So, for example, Denmark and Sweden national students study for free. In between these extremes, there are many different policies.
1:37.4	So, for example, Denmark and Sweden national students study for free, but international students pay a substantial tuition fee, over 10,000 US dollar per year.
1:39.1	We also see a trend.
1:42.2	More countries tend to join the second group.
1:45.4	So more countries start to make a difference between students.
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