Governments should offer a free university education to any student who has been admitted to a university but who cannot afford the tuition.
Education, as defined by John Dewey, is the process of facilitating learning, and acquiring knowledge, skills, values, beliefs and habits. Universities facilitate this very process of advanced learning and gaining knowledge. The policy that governments should sponsor free education for students unable to afford tuition fees has manifold advantages. However, it should be applied with some considerations and in an appropriate form.
University education is crucial in shaping citizens’ mental, psychological, social and physical growth. A nation’s progress is dependent upon its citizens’ whereas the latter’s progress relies on good University education. However, not every individual has the financial capacity to afford the rising cost of higher education. In some countries, a rampant commercialization of educational sector resulted in large pool of students either dropping out of the universities or not registering for higher education at all. In cases where students do enroll taking high-interest bank loans, certain drastic repercussions such as emergence of ‘sugar daddy’ culture, students fleeing the country to evade loan repayment, etc. have come to the fore.
Citizens have the right to get educated and the governments have the duty to educate them. Like other areas such as health care, employment, public transport, governments are obligated to provide access to higher education to every citizens irrespective of their social or pecuniary status. Implementing a free education policy for needy students will go a long way in the conveying them the message that financial constraints are not a hindrance in pursuit of knowledge. This, as a result, will ensure more and more citizens - especially the meritorious one - opting for higher education leading to a constant stream of doctors, engineers, lawyers, theorists, thinkers, etc. coming out of the universities and contributing towards the advancement of technology, health care, scientific research, literary works, etc. Then, ultimately, this will foster a nation country’s economic, cultural, intellectual and social growth.
However, every government has limited resources a part of which is allocated to education sector used for the overall development of the sector. A general policy to waive off tuition fees would entail increasing the percent allocation of the budget which may result in deduction in the budget for other vital areas e.g. healthcare, defense, social welfare, etc. Even if the cost for abating the tuition fees is channelized through the existing allocation, other educational areas such as development of labs, staff salaries, primary and secondary education and so on will be negatively impacted. Moreover, free education may negatively impact the attitude of some students who may then not appreciate its value which would not be the case when there is a fear for monetary loss upon failure. The overall result would be the decadence of educational quality.
Therefore, any such policy must be considerate of students’ affordability which varies from one individual to other as well as the merit of the beneficiaries. A pragmatic approach would be to mandate students to contribute as assistants in research/teaching or reimburse the waived-off tuition fees once they are flourished and settled. Also, continuation of such subsidies must be subjected to good academic performance in every semester. In conclusion, government must ensure tuition free education for needy and deserving candidates but the amount of waiver should be proportionate to students’ affordability and that too should be compensated through their contribution in one or the other as described before.
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| 2019-09-07 | Mohit Raghuvanshi | 58 | view |
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, e.g., however, if, may, moreover, second, so, then, therefore, well, whereas, in conclusion, such as, as a result, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.5258426966 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.4196629213 145% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 13.0 33.0505617978 39% => OK
Preposition: 66.0 58.6224719101 113% => OK
Nominalization: 33.0 12.9106741573 256% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3189.0 2235.4752809 143% => OK
No of words: 554.0 442.535393258 125% => OK
Chars per words: 5.75631768953 5.05705443957 114% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.85151570047 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.2739287233 2.79657885939 117% => OK
Unique words: 293.0 215.323595506 136% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.528880866426 0.4932671777 107% => OK
syllable_count: 1007.1 704.065955056 143% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59117977528 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 6.24550561798 32% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.2370786517 124% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.0703174192 60.3974514979 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 127.56 118.986275619 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.16 23.4991977007 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.44 5.21951772744 104% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.2758426966 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.83258426966 166% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.257126159937 0.243740707755 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0694567778085 0.0831039109588 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0608667312354 0.0758088955206 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.144872929019 0.150359130593 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0261898136112 0.0667264976115 39% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.8 14.1392134831 119% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 32.22 48.8420337079 66% => OK
smog_index: 13.0 7.92365168539 164% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 12.1743820225 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.13 12.1639044944 133% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.92 8.38706741573 118% => OK
difficult_words: 182.0 100.480337079 181% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 17.0 11.7820224719 144% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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