+/-Mar 5 2010Tuition fees for foreign students as of autumn term 2011By: In the Government Bill 'Competing on the basis of quality - tuition fees for foreign students' (Govt. Bill 2009/10:65) the Government proposes that higher education be free of charge for Swedish citizens and citizens of an EU/EEA state or Switzerland. Moreover, the Government considers that citizens from other countries - 'third country students' - should pay a fee for their higher education as of the autumn term 2011. The Government wants Swedish higher education institutions to compete on the basis of quality, not on the basis of a free education.