College allowance

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The college fee is - in contrast to the listening fee or the tuition fee (which entitles you to attend all courses at a university) - a fee that the student had to pay for one semester with only one professor. This income flowed directly to it. This form of student financing existed at least continuously throughout the entire late Middle Ages until at least the end of the German Empire in 1918 at German universities and colleges. In addition to the college fees, there were doctoral fees (which were required for taking the exam), which were also payable to the examiners. This also included the fee for issuing the diploma .

In the 19th century, some university professors, especially private lecturers, did not receive a fixed salary, but were dependent on the income from these college fees. For example, one who suffered from this was the historian Karl Lamprecht . Even Friedrich Schiller knew to remember how in 1789 he Jena received his first colleges money. The level of the college fees was by no means insignificant, so that some people were unable to raise them. It happened that one was enrolled as a student, but therefore could not attend the desired courses. This is what happened to Johann August Ernesti at the University of Leipzig in 1748 .

In Austria , the college fee was introduced from 1850 on the initiative of Education Minister Leo von Thun and Hohenstein . The purpose he pursued was to steer the newly introduced freedom of learning through the pecuniary interests of the students and to encourage the teachers with appropriate income and to keep them in Austria. It was also levied in the republic as part of the university taxes from 1919 to 1938 and from 1945 on the basis of ordinances. After these ordinances were repealed by the Constitutional Court, there was a uniform regulation including the college fee in the University Tax Act 1953. In 1972, as part of the easier access to education by the Kreisky Federal Government, with the consent of the other parties represented in the National Council at that time, the ÖVP and FPÖ, the abolition under among other things, the college fee in the University Tax Act 1972. For university professors and lecturers who conduct courses , the college fee compensation, currently in accordance with Section 51 of the Salary Act, is paid out as a replacement .

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  1. ↑ ÖNB-ALEX 416. Reichsgesetzblatt, decree of the Minister of Cultus and Education of October 13, 1849
  2. ^ Die Presse : Tuition fees and bureaucracy contribution for the universities , September 12, 2010, accessed on March 27, 2016
  3. ↑ Stenographic minutes of the 24th meeting of the National Council of the Republic of Austria, page 21 ff., PDF