The Technical University of Munich is making studies chargeable for people from non-EU countries – in the future they will have to pay up to 12,000 euros per year. Science Minister Blume asks the universities to exercise a sense of proportion, parts of the opposition are outraged.
It is a sensitive issue for Markus Blume, a few weeks before the state elections. Ten years ago, his party, the CSU, realized that tuition fees were not a winning issue among voters – and then quickly abolished them, a good six months before the 2013 state elections. And now the topic is suddenly back in the world: technology The University of Munich (TUM) will make studying for newly enrolled people from non-EU countries chargeable next year, as the SZ reported at the beginning of September.