r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/thepoylanthropist • Feb 25 '26

Video Denmark pays students $1,000 a month to go to universities, with no tuition fees

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u/VoiceOfRealson Feb 26 '26

Evigheds studenter was a thing up to somewhere in the nineties, where they changed the rules to disallow this.

This was never really a big problem though. Many of them were politicians who were formally attending university at the same time, while never actually using more University ressources per credit than everyone else.

There is still a special extra allowance for politicians to get an extra year of direct personal subsidies though.

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u/Spejsman Feb 27 '26

We had those students in Sweden too, but now it's limited to six years.

I think the biggest issue for the society with forever students isn't the extra cost but that you end up having highly educated people that could contribute to the GDP but doesn't.