Tuition Fee


Tuition Fee
CMNS 165
Merriman
            With post-secondary education becoming increasingly important in todays work force, it is time the government re-evaluates how it goes about tuition fees. The way it is now, the average Canadian will spend about $6,571 on their tuition during their degree program. This is “up 3.1% from the previous academic year” according to Statistics Canada. This makes it increasingly harder for people to get a post-secondary degree. With the current structure, those with money get degrees and those without don’t. If someone with little money does decide to go to post-secondary, it could mean either using all of their savings, becoming broke in the process, or taking out a student loan, which would cause future problems for them. If you were to ask any student now what they thought of the price of tuition, they would probably say that they wish it was lowed. But what if the government decided to make post-secondary education free? This doesn’t seem like a viable solution to the problem. If the government did this, it would most likely result in a massive surge of people wanting to get a degree. The problem with this is that with more people enrolling, classes will fill up faster. They people joining may not even know what they want to do. They could just be taking the class for the fun of it. The problem with this is that it takes the learning away from somebody who really needs it or actually has a passion for the subject. The government/schools could offer more classes and hire more instructors but in doing so would increase their own costs exponentially. The only clear solution is to lower the cost of tuition. By doing so, it would open so many new doors and possibilities for the future. It would allow students to enroll who maybe couldn’t before. It would improve the work force. By having more and more people in the work force with post-secondary degrees, we would see more sustainably and rewarding jobs. It would also benefit the economy because more and more people will be repaying their tuition trough their taxes. “It turns out that when these tax payments are added up over the course of graduates’ careers, BC university students as a group pay more than double what their education costs” (Iglika Ivanova, 2012). We need to change how things are working little by little. If we demand a drastic change right out of the gate, we are more likely to set our selves back.     













References
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. (2018). Five reasons why you should support a move to low tuition fees in Canada. [online] Available at: https://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/commentary/five-reasons-why-you-should-support-move-low-tuition-fees-canada [Accessed 21 Feb. 2018].
Hampu, M. (2018). The Free Post-Secondary Education Debate - Debt Canada: Your Canadian Credit Education Centre. [online] Debtcanada.ca. Available at: https://www.debtcanada.ca/news/278-the-free-post-secondary-education-debate [Accessed 21 Feb. 2018].
Statcan.gc.ca. (2018). The Daily — Tuition fees for degree programs, 2017/2018. [online] Available at: http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/170906/dq170906b-eng.htm [Accessed 21 Feb. 2018].

Comments

  1. Jenni Szajnzinger - CMNS 15022 February 2018 at 15:10

    I believe that free tuition for all is a viable solution. However, you are right that it is not a move that could be made immediately, but would be possible only if implemented over time. I don't believe that if tuition was made free that it would drastically change the number of people going to school, it would raise the number of applicants - but it wouldn't change the admissions requirements that schools have in place. The one comment that I find disconcerting is, " They people joining may not even know what they want to do. They could just be taking the class for the fun of it. The problem with this is that it takes the learning away from somebody who really needs it or actually has a passion for the subject." I think that the ability to take time to learn for fun is incredibly important. Learning should be fun, and if a subject is someone's passion, they should absolutely be encouraged to pursue that line of study to see whether they could work in that field, rather than force themselves to study something just for the amount of money their future job will provide them. That line of thinking will only make for a miserable, unhappy population.

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  2. Taylor Bedford23 February 2018 at 11:49

    I agree that free tuition isn't necessarily the most effective answer. To push your point further on the idea that schools would become flooded from free-tuition, it may also even 'de-value' future degrees. It is something that is already beginning to happen, I'm sure you've heard it before;
    "the new high school diploma is a degree."

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