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Jan. 27th, 2005 09:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
estepheiaSpiegel.de on College fees:
The funny part is this:
Studiengebühren von rund 500 Euro pro Semester seien auch für ärmere Studenten problemlos ohne Kredite zu finanzieren, sagt Bayerns Wissenschaftsminister Thomas Goppel. Sie müssten lediglich "jeden Monat für hundert Euro auf etwas verzichten oder zwei Nachhilfestunden geben".
Even poorer students should be able to pay fees of about 500 EUR per semester , without taking a loan, the Bavarian Secretary of Education Thomas Goppel said. "All they have to do is cut their spending by 100 EUR per month, or give two lessons."
Hubby said laughingly that 50 EUR per hour is not a bad rate and that we should pack our bags and move to Bavaria. I'm pretty sure Herr Goppel meant to say 'two lessons every week'. That would make it 12 EUR per hour, which is still a lot more than what I get. The thing that gets me is that he thinks that students can easily save 100 EUR every month. Clearly, that man needs to buy a clue.
Want to write all the stuff I didn't get done yesterday, but I have to shop, clean the kitchen, cook, pick up Toyah from kindergarten, write one or two poems for tonight's Open Mic (we read in English). Waaah. *panicks*
The funny part is this:
Studiengebühren von rund 500 Euro pro Semester seien auch für ärmere Studenten problemlos ohne Kredite zu finanzieren, sagt Bayerns Wissenschaftsminister Thomas Goppel. Sie müssten lediglich "jeden Monat für hundert Euro auf etwas verzichten oder zwei Nachhilfestunden geben".
Even poorer students should be able to pay fees of about 500 EUR per semester , without taking a loan, the Bavarian Secretary of Education Thomas Goppel said. "All they have to do is cut their spending by 100 EUR per month, or give two lessons."
Hubby said laughingly that 50 EUR per hour is not a bad rate and that we should pack our bags and move to Bavaria. I'm pretty sure Herr Goppel meant to say 'two lessons every week'. That would make it 12 EUR per hour, which is still a lot more than what I get. The thing that gets me is that he thinks that students can easily save 100 EUR every month. Clearly, that man needs to buy a clue.
Want to write all the stuff I didn't get done yesterday, but I have to shop, clean the kitchen, cook, pick up Toyah from kindergarten, write one or two poems for tonight's Open Mic (we read in English). Waaah. *panicks*
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Date: 2005-01-27 02:18 pm (UTC)Here in the US the amounts they establish for, say, the official poverty line wouldn't buy *lunch* for most politicians for a month. Sounds just as unrealistic where you are, I must say.
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Date: 2005-01-28 01:12 pm (UTC)Where is the official poverty line in the US?
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Date: 2005-01-29 05:04 pm (UTC)As to the US poverty level: from this US Census Bureau pdf (http://www.census.gov/prod/2004pubs/p60-226.pdf) I found out that the poverty level is about $19,000 for a family of four - about half the median income. In Europe it's calculated at 60%. For a single person it's a little less than $10,000.
How one keeps body and soul together on that kind of money I have no earthly idea, but that's the level at which people are expected to be self-sufficient - it's hard to get gov't benefits if your income's above that. And not surprisingly, poverty in this country is rising. As some comedian at the inauguration said, well, in the war on poverty, the poor lost. (The crowd applauded mightily. Asshats.)
/rant
And congratulations again...