Do you consider that people can ill afford the cost of higher education?
By ssh123
@ssh123 (31073)
India
10 responses
@rladiga00 (1165)
• India
25 May 07
I have been watching the cost of education which has gone up 100% in the last 3 years. I am beginning to worry about higher education costs for my son.
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@jeanniemay (1798)
• Philippines
9 Mar 08
Yes, education is becoming an expensive commodity for all. I have long life dreams to attend to prestigious schools in big cities but I'm still earning hard to afford it. I have desires to add more learning having the experience and the chance to grab what privileged people have. It sounds silly at times but I believe that how expensive these maybe, if we work hard to afford them, let's grab the chance. It pays and it's worth to be learned.
@arkaf61 (10881)
• Canada
6 Mar 08
Yes, it is so true my friend. And to me a bit illogical.
Education, knowledge... those are the most needed things.
And yet, people either can't afford it or are forced to use loans to achieve it. WHIle the second option might seem a good idea, it feels a bit strange that people finish their courses and attempt to start their employed life with such huge debt as a startoff. It is not uncommon in here to finish university with a debt of 100 thousand dollars - since many courses run around 20 something thousand dollars a year.
It seems to me that so much money is being used for other things that don't have the same priority and little is being done for education. And that's quite odd to me - or maybe not, I am well aware of the elitism in education, but I thought the world was moving forward.
@flowie (134)
• South Africa
6 Mar 08
It is very expensive, studying at a university in SA cost easy R24 000 a semester, it is a lot, and without education, o well, you need to have money to send your kids to a higher education these days. And the worst thing is when you are done you still need to go look for a job, an a lot of people cant find jobs.
@ssh123 (31073)
• India
6 Mar 08
Since India is a fast growing economy, there is great demand for jobs particularly in IT industry and other allied industries, banking sector, insurance etc. Getting a job is a not a problem, but financing the educatino is a big problem for children especially those who hail from poor and middle class families. I look at each university as an money spinning machines.
@ssh123 (31073)
• India
8 Mar 08
There are lots of banking institutions which are providing loans, but then the cost of borrowing is very high and also debt servicing is prohibitively expensive. Atleast the governments should provide interest free loans so that once the students get the job, they can start repaying the loans.
@subha12 (18441)
• India
6 Mar 08
i agree with you. Nowadays it seems parents are doing whatever needed to accumulate money for children's education. Its too much costly now. For this reason only I can't pursue MBA from any good Business school. I do not want to drain my parents.
@ssh123 (31073)
• India
6 Mar 08
You are right. Abroad particularly in USA, the students in high school save money by working partime so that they can pay college fees etc. But in India, it is not common to see people going for partitime jobs.
Education is so expensive, people are tensed about their children's future prospects. Children are under tremendous pressure from parents to perform well in school and pre university exams ranking of which helps them to get seat in the college.
@williamjisir (22819)
• China
6 Mar 08
Hello dear friend ssh. This is not only a problem in India, but in China as well. The higher education fee can be divided into two sections, namely, education fee in government-owned colleges and education fee in private-owned colleges. Well, the fee a college student has to pay for in a government-owned is far cheaper than that in a private-owned college. Why so? It is because the private colleges or other kinds of private schools from elementary to high schools have to bear the expenses by themselves, which differs from the government-owned ones, which is in charge of the expenses for the colleges, like the teachers' salary, the infrastructures and teaching equipments, either software or hardware and so on. Also in private ones, they have more flexible in designing their majors for students to learn. Also there are still many students from poor families and from remote and backward mountain areas find it difficult for them to bear the high expense that is needed for them, discouraging them to realize their college dream. But what is pleasant to all is that the government and schools and many local celebrities and people from all walks of life are trying to help this kind of students to help them with their fee for education. I appreciate all of the help to them. To have just one person to help one is not that easy, but like the saying goes, "many a little makes a mickle". I hope that with the help of people from different lines, more and more students will be able to go to college for their bright future. Thanks very much for your discussion.
@ssh123 (31073)
• India
6 Mar 08
Of late our governments both state and central have become cost-conscious. The higher education in India is quite exhorbitant for the incomes the childrens parents earning. In fact it drains away all their savings. Many people are falling into debt traps by borrowing money from Bank for higher education. The government fees is 50% less than what the private colleges charges. Even the so called social sciences costs much, forget about the priorities like engineering, medcal.
Thanks for a nice write up about the higher education in China. I had seen a tv programme, where lots of British young people are joining chinese university for higher education, because of low cost.
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@ssh123 (31073)
• India
9 Mar 08
I had toured many foreign countries east and the west but still I love to clean my hands and eat in hands. That gives me great taste to the food. It is not aboriginal or uncivilized. Anyway, we do not force others to eat with the help of their hands and fingers. YOu know everyone has their own way of doing things.
Thanking for your very interesting comment. REgards.
@williamjisir (22819)
• China
6 Mar 08
Yes, there are a lot of foreign students coming to China to study Chinese and there are also many of them who could speak Chinese very beautifully. In the colleage where my nephew graduated last year, there were also a lot of Indian students studying Chinese. I got to know this from her and also some of the eating habits of the Indian students, who love to eat with fingers, different from our eating style. I think that it is interesting to know foreign customs and cultures. By the way, the college is Jiujiang College in Jiangxi Province. Thanks again, dear friend.
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@jyoti_medha (567)
• Mauritius
23 May 08
ya it is true that the higher education is becoming more and more expensive and it is becoming very difficult for parents to send their children for higher edication. Now there are loans available to students which help them to complete their studies and when they start working they can pay the loans.
