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.
Education is the identity of an individual in today’s world. Higher the level of education achieved, higher is the value of that individual in front of the world. If Universities provide education to minds which deserve it, irrespective of whether they belong to a high class or a low class, they are not only enhancing the quality of society around, but also they are being humane.
Education is a right of every individual. It’s understandable that the universities require money to attract the students by bringing betterment in their dimensions; but at a certain point giving education for free to certain students, who deserve but cannot afford it, is considered their duty. Educating the society is the moral duty of every educational institute. Money, of course, is the demand of every development in any institute, but it’s not compulsory to be fetched out from every student.
The barrier between rich and the poor families can be polished off only by giving chance to the poor family children who want to study by giving free education. This system of free education will have a inordinate impact on the upcoming future generations. Also, it will boost the confidence of indigent children to dream and enlighten their future with prosperity and success. They can also progress without any difficulties, afterall they belong to the same country and same age group like the ones who are in middle-class and rich families.
One fear or disadvantage of providing free education to the lower-class children is that they will get complete education to be an independent individual who can have oppurtunities better outside their country. Hence, to dispatch this disadvantage, an agreement with the student should be made in which he/she would be asked to work in the University/ within the country for at least some years.
It’s a myth that providing free education to children from families below poverty line is injustice to children above poverty from families above poverty line, because education is not for increasing or decreasing the financial status of a child, infact it is for increasing the knowledge and evolving the personality of a child who deserves his right of education.
Therefore, the benevolence of universities to the indigent group of children having hearts with dreams to get educated and also minds to understand and utilize their education, can help flourish the country’s future.