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Aim to send 50% of students abroad by 2020 and boost foreign cohort at home. Jack Grove reports
Sending half of Germany's university students abroad for part of their studies by 2020 will give the country a major competitive advantage over other export-driven nations, a leading sector figure has claimed.
Sebastian Fohrbeck, director of internationalisation and communication at the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), which promotes German higher education abroad, dismissed fears that its plans for "a massive movement of students abroad" represented an "organised brain drain".
About a third of German students now undertake some of their degree study in another country, but ministers are keen to increase this to 50 per cent within six years, Dr Fohrbeck told a conference...