2006-10-04 04:12:04 · 21 answers · asked by James M 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Good point, government is going on about not enough people carrying on to the higher education, i think it should have been free from the start. You shouldn't pay for knowledge.
2006-10-04 04:14:26 · answer #1 · answered by angel 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because years ago our clever politicians thought of a great way to keep unemployment down!
Yes they said lets get everybody to go into further education upon leaving school, offer the redundant and unemployed places under an education for life theme also. Then we can add a few more jobs in universities and build a few more universities to keeping construction industry busy too.
What a great idea to keep the unemployment figures down as it will take all these people off the unemployed register.
Great they said full steam ahead were up for re-election.
Then the bills and demands started to roll in from the universities and the government said hold on, who is going to pay for this?
I know, the students! After all they are getting the benefit of all this, they would be on the dole claiming benefit money if we had not given them this great opportunity to get into debt and put off having to find a job for another three years.
Clever people those politicians.
The only good that comes out of it is that we now have a lot of people that are educated enough to see right through their stupidity!
FOOT NOTE The people that thought this through did not have to pay for their education.
2006-10-04 04:28:19 · answer #2 · answered by philipscottbrooks 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For one thing, Knowledge is worth much. No one is going to ride free through college, unless he is an A student on scholarships.
Someone has to pay, think about it. If you were the University, would you let peeps come and study for free? Paying insists responsibility and accountablilty. That is why many colleges, such as Harvard, only accept students that have a very high GPA. This ensures that the professors aren't wasting time trying to educate bums off the street.
Hope my answer helped you. Have a good one
2006-10-04 04:24:01 · answer #3 · answered by Cyber Spacer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are being provided a service that increases your value. In the past people paid for the system indirectly through taxes. But now a lot of people are going to University, so charging the beneficiary directly is fairer. At least here you don't have to pay up until later, in other countries, you pay upfront! But I suppose the answer you really want is "they shouldn't have to!"
2006-10-04 04:19:23 · answer #4 · answered by Freelancer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because you will value something much more if it costs you something than if is just given to you for nothing.
I work at a Uni, and believe me the North Americans who have to pay a lot more than UK students to go to Uni work a lot harder than our local students when they spend a year here on exchange.
They are studying or in the laboratories when the locals are in the pub or SU bar.
2006-10-04 04:24:31 · answer #5 · answered by SuperWales 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The theory is that they are "investing in themselves", and that they will earn the money back in future by getting a higher-paid job than they would otherwise.
The truth is that the government is determined to increase the numbers going to University (even though there are already many unemployed graduates), but can't find the money to pay for them, so everyone has to chip in.
2006-10-04 04:15:43 · answer #6 · answered by gvih2g2 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because when Blair said ', education, education, education', no one knew until know he was just shocked the word was on the cue screen and he repeated it several times to get it into his thick head, and come on we all know that the government are predominantly a bunch of white, middle class morons, who want to quell the rise in education standards so that they can continue to make a profit out of the uneducated masses.
2006-10-04 11:09:31 · answer #7 · answered by Emma O 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who should pay then. I don't want to pay my Council Tax, but no other sucker will or my other bills or my kids education. So, I reckon your Uni fees will be paid out of the collective income tax which me and all the rest of the working public have to pay.
2006-10-04 04:47:33 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maintaing students in a university costs the management .Facilities and faculty have to be paid for. Maybe in us they are costlier where the govt doesn't offer subsidies.
2006-10-04 04:21:14 · answer #9 · answered by addiz 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the same reason people have to pay for food and medical care. The people that teach at those universities have to make a living and if no one paid, they would be unpaid and would not teach
2006-10-04 04:14:35 · answer #10 · answered by reallyfedup 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋