Governments should offer a free university education to any student who has been admitted to a university but who cannot afford the tuition.
Write a response in which you discuss your views on the policy and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider the possible consequences of implementing the policy and explain how these consequences shape your position.
As college tuition increases exponentially, it is no surprise that students and some law makers are interested in creating a free higher education system. Recent studies show as high as 40% of all college students graduate with debt and many are unable to get ahead. With that being said, the idea of free higher education is not economically feasible. Providing a bachelor's degree free of charge is detrimental because by allowing one's basics to be free, the four-year degree will cease to hold merit, in some regards it already has. Secondly, with a population in countries such as the United States and India where there is an increasing number of teens and young adults, current tax payers will not be able to meet the rising cost that comes with providing education across the board. Finally, rather than providing free tuition, the governments should be more focused on insuring that universities an colleges lower tuitions.
If governments were to offer free higher education to students, a bachelor's degree would become just another high school diploma. In the United States, where free education is provided through the twelfth grade, many students are not incentivized by the notion of excelling in the academic endeavors, and though K-12 education yields many important life skills, higher education is meant as a tool to help an individual specialize in a particular field. If governments were to extend free higher education to all students, universities would see many students who are simply attending the colleges because their parents made them, or governments could begin requiring students to obtain the Bachelor's degree. In either scenario, the weight that a Bachelor's degree carries would be greatly diminished and the work force would be over saturated with persons holding a Bachelor's degree, a situation that is already developing. There is no need to exacerbate the situation. Instead, governments should focus on further funding trade schools and providing more federal aid programs in that area. Though some would argue that this creates a class distinction, private scholarship and federal aid should correct for the issues of students from lower-income who have high academic potential.
The current tax system in countries that do not offer a free education system are not equipped to begin handling free higher education. European countries, and other regions that provide free education to some college students have a far lower overall population and a smaller portion of those attending university. In the United States and developing countries, the sheer number of young adults are too high to implement an affordable tax among other citizens. Many would feel that it is not their responsibility to pay for another person's education, especially when higher education is optional. Tax payers are already having to pay for public school education for K-12, and the average citizen believes he/she is already being taxed too high. There exists no funding that could provide for the added expense. Supporters of free education state that by buying into free education for all now, tax payers can be assured that current students would obtain high paying jobs which would then contribute to the social security of those retiring; however, with the current situation of social security, there is no guarantee that there is enough current funding to continue social security in the foreseeable future.
Universities and colleges across the globe are continually increasing rates, and many times it feels as if there is no apparent reason. instead of raising tuition for students, leaving them in crippling debt, college and universities should focus on lowering tuition. Higher education has not always been unaffordable, and it is time for governments to start holding universities accountable for uncontrolled tuition instead of giving in by providing free tuition.
College education used to be affordable with most students coming out of college with little to no debt. The universities and colleges are the ones that need to be held responsable to these increases rather than passing it on to the tax payers. An influx of students obtaining their Bachelor's degree would saturate the market, and universities around would begin seeing disinterested students who are only furthering their studies because it is free. The only feasible way to provide free higher education is to pass it onto the tax payer which is both unpopular and unfair. There are other methods to making college and universities more affordable such as lowering tuition, increasing private funding, and advocating for trade schools, but offering free higher education is not a practical solution.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, however, if, second, secondly, so, then, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 43.0 19.5258426966 220% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 21.0 12.4196629213 169% => OK
Conjunction : 23.0 14.8657303371 155% => OK
Relative clauses : 24.0 11.3162921348 212% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 36.0 33.0505617978 109% => OK
Preposition: 81.0 58.6224719101 138% => OK
Nominalization: 36.0 12.9106741573 279% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3966.0 2235.4752809 177% => OK
No of words: 747.0 442.535393258 169% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.30923694779 5.05705443957 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.22793465313 4.55969084622 115% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75658274087 2.79657885939 99% => OK
Unique words: 322.0 215.323595506 150% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.431057563588 0.4932671777 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1237.5 704.065955056 176% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 6.24550561798 16% => OK
Article: 11.0 4.99550561798 220% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 9.0 1.77640449438 507% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 20.2370786517 138% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 23.0359550562 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 74.301921309 60.3974514979 123% => OK
Chars per sentence: 141.642857143 118.986275619 119% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.6785714286 23.4991977007 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.21428571429 5.21951772744 42% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 11.0 7.80617977528 141% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.2758426966 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 5.13820224719 195% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.226395158981 0.243740707755 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0742234031779 0.0831039109588 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0498591016542 0.0758088955206 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.159088412735 0.150359130593 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0434371689299 0.0667264976115 65% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.9 14.1392134831 120% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 36.63 48.8420337079 75% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 12.1743820225 120% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.81 12.1639044944 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.29 8.38706741573 99% => OK
difficult_words: 159.0 100.480337079 158% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.2143820225 111% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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