hamburger wrote:thanks , old europe !
that's what i read somewhere . so i was surprised to read in a FOCUS(2005) article that german students are apparently willing to go into debt ???
perhaps walter can help us out since the article is in german .
hbg
link to article :
FOCUS
Well..... dunno, really. The article says that students were faced with having to pay up to 650 per month in living expenses and university fees.
I don't doubt that, but if university fees are limited to a maximum of 50 a month, than it's rather a question of whether students are willing to work during semester break or not. I can see that somebody might want to concentrate on university instead, and go into debt in order to finance their cost of living. I doesn't make too much sense to me, but it's everybody's personal decision.
Another reason might be that the
BAföG student loans are being tallied as regular debt/credit.
I can see why 66 percent of all students would be willing to take advantage of that kind of financing, if you qualify....
