Essay from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Other, grade: 1, University of Trier, course: Written Forms of Communication 2, language: English, abstract: Are tuition fees really the only way to improve the German university system? According to German politicians, this seems to be the case. They argue that only tuition fees can increase the financial resources of the bad-equipped German universities and that a tuition-based university system would force students to study more efficiently and to graduate much faster from college than they do today.