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She asserts that the skills that students learn
at university are important for the future social
and economic development of our nation
Joan Sprat (1989:13) argues that the government
should provide free university education because
such education benefits the whole community.
According to this argument, when students are
forced to pay for their education themselves fewer
of them will enrol in higher education courses.
Therefore, so this argument goes, the government
should invest money in education as it does with
other vital resources |
Furthermore, there is money to fund more places
for students so that in the future we will not have
the shortage of places we had in the past.
However, as John Dawkins (1988:1) explains the
government is able to invest the money it gets back
into the higher education system so that overall
quality is improved.
Moreover, it is unreasonable to expect taxpayers to
pay for students' education when those students get
well-paid professional jobs after they
graduate. |
