The rising cost of tuition keep too many people from applying to post-secondary institutions. Gaining secondary education mostly leads to higher earning potential after completion, many people leave these institutions in major debt. Rather than burdening themselves with large debt, most people forego education and simply join the full-time workforce instead. Shouldn’t a tuition free system of post-secondary education bring more people to educate themselves more?
Free tuition may have better effect on the lower to middle earning class. Finding themselves with massive amounts of debt and going into the workforce creates a lot strain and stress. "Students from middle-class and working-class families have been forced to borrow huge sums of money, in recent years to pay for college, often saddling them with hefty loan payments long after graduation" (Schworm & Wertheimer, 2007, par. 1). Having free tuition would open up greater opportunity to people who would have past it by to due the large monetary investment.
Waiving fees for those in the same geographical locale such as Provinces wouldn’t burden the institution as it would be subsidizing its own population. If Provincial Governments were to subsidize its own population with tuition free post-secondary education the economic benefits would be sizeable. The idea is that people from the province would be able to join post-secondary institutions within that province for free. Once education is achieved the over-all alumni would be in a better place to join the workforce and benefit the economy.
Although there are negatives to having free tuition. People may not take college as seriously due to not having to work towards their education but a competent grading system tends to sort out the lazy. It seems that having a tuition free system would benefit the economy and raise the standard of living for so many more people.
Schworm, P., & Wertheimer, L. (2007, November 11). Defraying the high cost of a degree. Retrieved February 18, 2018, from http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/11/11/defraying_the_high_cost_of_a_degree/
I personally disagree with this position. However, you bring up a lot of great points towards the benefits of free tuition. Having a better effect on the lower middle-class and working-class families is definitely a huge positive. Benefiting the economy and raising the standard of living for many people would also be great, but with students no longer being required to pay, this may lead to colleges receiving less direct funding, impacting areas of the college where it is needed the most.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you on the point of "Shouldn't a a tuition free system of post-secondary education bring more people to educate themselves more?" And I do agree that free tuition would open many doors for all, including lower to middle-class families. I appreciate that you brought up both positives and negatives for this argument, such as that free tuition could potentially attract students who are not there for the right reasons, and therefore take away from others. I agree that it would benefit the economy and welcome many out-of-province students in, which could be bad though in terms of living space and costs.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your argument and you raise an interesting point that people may not take college seriously since they don't have to work towards their education. You also pose a good solution by suggesting a certain type of grading system will help sort out the unworthy ones.
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