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6th Oct 2011

Germany: Hamburg to scrap tuition fees

The City of Hamburg plans to do away with tuition fees as of the 2012 winter semester. This would leave Germany with just two of its 16 federal states generally charging fees in public-funded higher education. Source: University World News

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