Sophie Heawood: education? All students ever hear is money, money, money

By Sophie Heawood. What happens to young people’s brains when you tell them that education is a business, and that nothing comes for free’. I have never experienced such a rush of loving emotion towards Lower Saxony in all my life. The last German region to charge university tuition fees has just scrapped them. This makes university education, across their entire country, free. More...