Government should free universitiy fees ??

ĐỀ 17-08-2013

In some countries, students have to pay their own college and university fees, but in other countries, government pays. Do the advantages of government spending their money on college and university fees for student outweigh the disadvantages?

Pros of freeing:

- High skilled labor

- Equal right for all

Cons:

- Waste of money

- Lack of seriousness in learning

- Hardly achieve good results

- Put more pressure on governments and teachers and schools

Other solutions

- Provide scholarships

Whether governments should be wholly responsible for university fees remains controversial. Some people think that by doing this, governments can encourage all people  to  enhance  their  education  while  others  claim  that  it  is  a  huge waste  of money  for  them.  In my view, disadvantages of freeing education outweigh advantages of this policy

First, it is claimed that education is the right of every person. Hence, he or she is entitled to reach higher level of education without payment. However, if governments free education as an equal right, all other fields like health-care will demand the same right.  Therefore, no sooner does this policy come true than all services in the society are on the house, leaving no profit for workers in each field to  earn  a  living,  let  alone  dig  deeper  into  their  fields.  In such countries where education is a service and students are obliged to pay fee, schools have enough fee to maintain facilities and hire the best teachers to educate. As a result, they can produce the most outstanding students like Havard and Yale Universities which demand high fees, but offer reputed training. 

Second, this policy is conducive to the creation of high-skilled labor. With each citizens receiving higher education like tertiary, governments are proud with their best  workers  to  produce  the  highest  quality  products  and  achieve  significant economic  growth.  Nevertheless,  because  of  being  exempt  from  education  fees, students  take  knowledge  for  granted,  which  leads  to  their  lower  academic performance. In addition, while governments are supposed to shoulder a variety of tasks  from  diseases,  defense  to  political  relationship,  it  will  be  burdensome  for them  to  be  totally  in  charge  of  education  without  sharing  of  each  citizen. Furthermore, although people claim that poor, but outstanding students may have little access to higher education, which is a disadvantage to the society in the long term,  governments  can  provide  scholarships  and  grants  for  these  special individuals.  This  means  that  being  totally  free  from  education  expense  is unnecessary.  Equally important,  for  students  who  are  responsible  for  education fees, they will be actively motivated to work part-time jobs to pay for their higher education  whereas  they  accumulate  a  variety  of  living  skills  from  economic independence, seriousness in learning to time-management. 

In  brief,  there are  more  pains  than  gains in the  policy  of emancipating students from  university  education  fees.  By  paying  fees,  not  only  do  students  become serious  in  learning,  enhance  several  skills,  but  teachers  are  also  given  higher salaries to sharpen their teaching ability and governments are less burdened with numerous social tasks.

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          To be entitled to do sth  / in’taitl/: được quyền làm gì

-         Oblige /ə'blaiʤ/ (v) : bắt buộc = compel = force =  coerce

                              (adj) obligatory = compulsory / compulsative = mandatory = imperative

-         Exempt /ig'zempt/ + from  (adj) được miễn   (v) miễn

-         Grant (n) (v) : ban , cấp, cho , trợ cấp

-         Burdensome (adj) : nặng nề, phiền toái