Why increase tuition fees

A rise in tuition fees will only lead to the poor being forfeited the chance to enrol in a degree course and hence, resulting in only the better off people obtaining degrees. A degree, in this sense, has lost its purpose and worth as it is just a luxury good that can only be afforded by the affluent.

One might argue that financial aid is available for the poor who perform well academically, but then again, with the rising costs of tuition fees, will there be more grants and scholarships handed out? I highly doubt so. By increasing the tuition fees the government will not only discourage the less well-off from attending higher education but it will create a wider gap between the rich and poor.

People who were in disadvantaged backgrounds to begin with are less likely to be able to afford to go to university if an increase in tuition fees was enforced.

This would then result in them being unable to obtain decent jobs with high salaries, leading to a resentful feeling and tension amongst the poorer of the nation and towards the rich who had never had any problem attending university and getting a well-paid career.

Yes but its so much easier to pay off those debts if Daddy is a millionaire and you have a trust fund. As well although it only gets paid off depending on your wage it still has to be fully paid back so it becomes how long you are in debt for. This would merely make the loan larger. Additionally, the money is paid back based on salary of the graduate, not the size of the loan.

Once the student has graduated, their background has no relevance to their current financial situation, they can get just as good a job as those with a more well off background. A further rise in tuition fees could easily be seen as an indirect way of discriminating against the poorer people of the country. If the government was to increase tuition fees it would have the obvious effect of deterring less well-off people from attending higher education.

Counter argument: Discrimination is not only one rule for one but another for the rest it also includes diverse access for example if I was to say one of you can go to university whoever reaches the top of the stairs first is in and one of the competitors is in a wheel chair that is obvious discrimination.

The Debts could be crippling to a working class family but not to a wealthy family as they have extra money to help out their child. Due to the fact that the newly increased tuition fees would apply to everyone within the country, whether they are rich or poor, ensures equality.

If the government was to reduce the fees for the poor or increase the fees for the rich only, that would be discrimination. Therefore, the government is not discriminating but ensuring equality and doing what it feels is best for the country.

If the government were to increase tuition fees they may well find that they have left themselves in a bit of a hole. Considering the government needs bright and intellectual people to fill the gaps within the various systems of the country e.

If more people were able to get a higher education, it would leave the government with more choice and more intellectual candidates to choose from. Aside from the government, discouraging people to get a higher education through increasing tuition fees would have an effect on the whole country as people will not be as trained or qualified to do their jobs as they would have been if they had obtained a degree. The selection process for jobs would be made a lot easier if there were fewer candidates to choose from.

It would also make things easier and decrease the competition for the fewer candidates that were qualified for the job. For private universities, the agency also issues conditional grants for specific programmes. The vice-chancellors now argue that the current model is no longer viable and most of the institutions are facing significant financial difficulties occasioned by rising financial pressures.

Other higher education sector players also believe there is a need to restructure the current arrangement. It focuses on funding a student in a specific programme, but that arrangement has proved to be inadequate because of the different levels of the cost associated with training students. The Universities Fund — the agency charged with providing funding to universities on behalf of the government — has, in the recent past, said it was reviewing the current model to bring in a more equitable and sustainable approach.

Public universities rely largely on government subsidies to run their operations. But the subsidies have not been growing in tandem with student numbers. This resulted in a decline in student numbers in the parallel programme, then the biggest revenue generator for public institutions besides the government subsidies. As earlier reported by University World News , a recent World Bank policy report has also recommended a review of the national tuition fees policy applicable to Kenyan universities — to address both financial sustainability and the equity of the higher education sector.

The Kenya Association of Private Universities chairman, Kisau Mumo, said that parliament also had to provide guidance on whether the government should continue funding students in private universities.

Data through —96 are for institutions of higher education, while later data are for degree-granting institutions. The degree-granting classification is very similar to the earlier higher education classification, but it includes more 2-year colleges and excludes a few higher education institutions that did not grant degrees.

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