Austria scares off foreign students

According to a ruling by the European Court of Justice concerning a case in Belgium, EU states may limit the number of university places open to foreign medical students if there is the risk of a shortage of doctors in the country. The daily Die Presse writes that despite the ruling Austria should not discriminate against foreign medicine students: "Is it not ultimately a matter of indifference for health care whether a doctor is German, Austrian or Slovakian? Isn't the real question how we can keep enough of those we educate in our country? Perhaps we should motivate some of our own students to study at other, even better universities, or concentrate on making a profitable business out of our universities and the quality education they offer. And that's not all we could do to turn the situation to our advantage. But when it comes to university quotas our policy is the same as for asylum: what counts is scaring away as many people as we can."

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