Loans? What loans? How Denmark funds higher ed.

The World

Borrowers in the US and the UK wrack up the highest debt in the world. In Denmark, tuition is free and students are given grants to pay for food and housing. Few take out loans. But Joshua Coe reports from Aarhus, Denmark, that free education does have a price.

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