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Over 90,000 people who studied in Sweden are now in debt to the Swedish Enforcement Authority (Kronofogdemyndigheten), owing over 1 billion kronor ($150 million)in total, yet experts maintain that student loans remain a helpful alternative.
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Many non EU countries don't have these privileges but still produce quality graduates in high numbers!
All it means in those "Non EU" countries and lets be honest including many "EU" countriies - is that those who can afford to attend, take a larger proportion of the places.
If keeping the rich kids in education and the ones who cannot afford out is the goal of an educational system likely funded to a varying extent by tax payer money, then sure..
Sorry. I didn't mean that way. Please observe '?' and '!'.
sorry, but I don't understand the relationship between the good social network and the housing. ... Does she mean that you should be hot and sleep in a partner's flat or... does she suggest that adults should stay with their parents? "social network" had been a tool to keep insiders in and outsiders out in the job market for a good time, but I don't understand its relationship to the housing.