Hungary’s Opposition Promises Free Tuition To Under Graduates
- 26 Mar 2014 8:00 AM
The five-party opposition Unity alliance has promised free tuition to undergraduates from September. István Hiller of the Socialists and Gergely Karácsony of E14-PM told a joint press conference that the measure would help to persuade young people not to leave the country while making higher education accessible to poor students.
Unity will return the nearly 60 billion forints (EUR 192m) to higher education which has been withdrawn from the sector by the Orbán government, Hiller said. He also promised to launch a new programme from September 2015, 85% financed from European Union resources, enabling every student to spend 3-5 months abroad learning a foreign language.
Costing an annual 7 billion forints to the Hungarian state, the programme would set the “reasonable expectation” that every student should have passed an intermediate language exam by the time they graduate, he added.
Source www.hungarymatters.hu
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