Commission supports consideration of tuition fees

Europe’s governments should consider introducing tuition fees to create extra funding for their embattled universities, the European Commission said. In an Annual Growth Survey adapted by the Commission on 23 November, it said that member states should “[review] the quality and funding of the universities and [consider] measures such as the introduction of tuition fees for tertiary education, accompanied by student loan and scholarship schemes, or alternative sources of funding, including the use of public funds to leverage private investment.”