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| This short article has been posted here since Nepali Prime Minister and Environment and Soil Conserveation minister are participating in world conference on climate change that is going to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark. It is strongly urged that Prime Minister should initiate a creative step for the sake of Nepali students.
Nepali Students in Denmark Denmark has been a lucrative destination for the students from third world since Denmark has a high wage rate among the countries of European Union. Denmark is featured as good economy with high living cost. After 2005, Denmark followed a new rule of imposing educational fees for the students from out of European Union. The fee scheduled as 65000 to 75000 DKK per annum which is definately very high for the student from third world. Surprizingly, year after year, Nepali students are growing by numbers in Denmark despite the tuition fee is very high in Danish universities. Since Nepal is one of the poorest countries in the world, the reason behind increasing Nepali students is well understood. A few Nepalese who entered Denmark as students compelled to give up the study and move to other European countries such as Spain, Portugal, Belgium and Sweden in order to recover the loan that was obtained from the banks and private persons with high interest rates. Similarly, education consultancies in Nepal allure students to go to Denmark as if there was nothing a problem regarding finding jobs and pay tuition fee. The fact is that though Danish government allows 60 hours legal work permit if calculated doesn’t cover even the tuition fee that absoultely insufficient to cover the accommodation cost. The problem has been discussed several ways, channels and department however seems nothing has been achieved so far. Nepali students are obliged to work more hours since they can’t afford both tuition fees together with living cost. Consequently their study hours become very short which contributes to insignificant educational outcome. Nepali students who have been studying in Sweden, Finland and Norway are doing much better but the reality is that these countries only provide master level education not as an AP Degree or Bachelor Degree. As it seems that Denmark is either supplying labour through students from third world or maintaining state revenue in the form of tuition fee. There are two options to give a relief to the Nepali students; either allow more working hours or widen the tax ceiling. If Danish government has sincere empathy to Nepal, it should either of reconsider the tuition fee, extension of more legal working hours or relax the tax ceiling. Obviously being relaxed by paying high tuition fee gives one to have more comfort to meet the accommodation cost and to be able to extend more study hours. It is requested to the concerned Danish authorities to review on tuition fee for the Nepali students or make fewer burdens of high tax thresholds. 
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As deeply done an insight to the reality, it has been found a grounded reality, that the students who are from high class family rather prefer to go to the US, the UK and Australia where English is commonly used in order to access to any kind of job. Students who come to Denmark and other European countries are usually from middle class family. As the bitter taste of this fact, those students who are in Denmark as students have been unable to do very well in studies or in another sense, a very few students have been able to do well in the higher education. The reason is that entire energy of young Nepali students is consumed to earn money for the tuition fee and the accommodation to be covered. Besides that family members there in Nepal also expect small financial support (to pay back interest for the loan) from the students who are in foreign land. Yet the data has been unavailable how many students entered Denmark and how many of them were successful in higher education; how many of them are involved in Danish labour market. 
