Sacrifice standard of university education or make it free for all. (Higher Education - Free for all or Fee for all?)

Name: paul36

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Product:	Higher Education - Free for all or Fee for all?
Date:	04/06/07 (92 review reads)
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Advantages: current system works best

Disadvantages: standard has gone down

I have a dilemma with this issue.

The current system in Higher Education requires everyone to pay for their degree unless student has a sponsorship or is poor and can’t pay the fees. For others it is £3000 a year for three years, students can take loans out to pay for expenses.

I agree with this idea; however there is a big issue with this type of system. Universities would rather pass the person who has forked out nearly £10000 than fail. Level of degree education has deteriorated. Students are not applying for harder degrees for fear of failure. Not many applicants go for physics, Math or Chemistry.

Free for all is unworkable. Government currently spends millions, free education at degree level will increase expenditure to billions and taxes will have to go up. People who don’t go to university don’t want to pay for university graduate who comes out of university with brighter prospects of employment and promotion.

While fees paid for the poor is not ideal it is better than anything else which has been tried in the past or hyped up by think tanks.

Free education will at degree level will increase burden on state and some adults will become scavengers, doing a degree, dropping out and than starting again or you may find someone doing several degrees because entry is free.
I prefer dodgy degrees to state spending billions.

Summary: keep this system