Consequences of international student fees in Sweden: Lessons learned 12 years later

Today we are talking about the introduction of tuition fees for non-European students in Sweden and the impact of the new policy from 2011. We speak with Per A. Nilsson, an analyst at the Planning Office of Umeå University and former member of the Association of Swedish Higher Education Institution’s expert group for internationalisation issues, and Professor Lars Westin, professor in regional economics at Umeå University’s Centre for Regional Science. Nilsson, P. A. & Westin, L. (2023). The Swedish Debate on Tuition Fees for International Students in Higher Education. Nilsson, P. A. & Westin, L. (2022). Ten years after: reflections on the introduction of tuition fees for some international students in Swedish post-secondary education.

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The THESIS podcast aims to explore higher education across the globe through a range of perspectives, discuss relevant topics in a critical and digestible manner, and contribute to discourse among students, scholars and experts in the higher education field. It is organized and produced by several students in University of Oslo’s Master of Philosophy in Higher Education’s 2021 cohort who come from across the world who have an array of experiences and interests in the Higher Education field.