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Odair Bobbio from Brazil writes:
In my country the best universities are public. It´s
very difficult to get in because there is a kind of testing. Only
rich people that has been stood at good high school can obtain the
grades and get it... My opinion is that the university should be
free and have some number of chair for poor students.
Ana Cecilia Bastardo Prince from Venezuela writes:
In venezuela, we have both alternatives, either free education
or private education. Each person has the possibility to decide
the type of college or university to attend.
But, in my personal opinion, this system has been the main problem
for the unsuccessful public education system in my country; because,
there are a huge amount of students that have the economucal possibility
to pay some fee tuition and if the goverment and education officer
encourage this student to pay some money, depending on each economical
situation, our public university, i thinh, could be probably, more
efficient than they are now, because less strike and strife will
be done.
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Yonghong Zhang from P.R. China writes:
I think the new way of paying is a good system. It is flexible
and resonable. Giving students some debt will force them to study
harder so as to get a good job after graduation. Also the money
repaid by graduated students can be used to improve the teach and
research infrastucture of universities.
In China, undergraduated have to pay some money (from about
200 pounds to 400 pounds a year)after 1996, and the amounts of the
money has increased in recent years.Most unfairly, you have to pay
at the start of the semester. Before 1994, undergradute need not
pay anything or pay a little money for their education in universities,
on the contrast, they can get a little life allowance from the universities
every month, which is in total nearly two times as they paid if
they haid pay. This change has a very bad influence because many
qualified undergraduates from poor family can not afford the money
and can not enter the universities. But I heard China governemnt
was seeking othe solutions to assure the students from poor families
can enter the universities also.
Anyway, I think new plan of paying for graduates in UK is resonable.
Comfort Asaju from Nigeria writes:
In general I think it is unfair that the students have to pay
their fees in a way that is going to affect them, that is to say
it can stop them from carrying on with their studies. In my country
(Nigeria) most of the students after their GCSE cannot afford to
go to a university because of the high fees. This affects a lot
of the students that would like to further their education. In the
UK the situation is different. If university fees become high, the
students have two options.
I think it is a good idea if the students that have the oppotunity
to work while studying can at least have a part-time work. Thus
payiny their fees would be easier and they can go on studying.
If they cannot work, they can get a loan and pay it back once they
start working. In conclusion I feel that the governments should
try to keep the educational system affordable so that everybody
can be educated which is very important.
Sina Peyman from Iran writes:
In our country there are two ways for student to continue theire
education at universities. First PUBLIC UNIVERSITY that students
can use their services, free. and the second way is going to PRIVATE
UNIVERSITY that it costs too much for them. As a matter of fact,
Public university has difficult enterance exams, so most of the
students will lose the opporunity of studing at, Therefor most of
them have to choose the second way to have a university degree .
But there is a bigger problem here, JOBLESS. not people who have
graduated from public university , nor them wh have graduated from
private university, have the opportunity to find a suitable jobb.
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Jim Thom from the United States writes:
I think it sounds like a very fair and sensible system. Considering
that college graduates almost always earn substantially more than
non-graduates seems to make it well worth-while. This is especially
true since the pay-back wouldn't begin until earnings rose high
enough to make it less painful.
There are both private and public US universities, where the
public ones are subsidized heavily by the government. They charge
substantially less for tuition. The private schools are a cut above
the public ones for the most part, but can be extremely more expensive.
Both types usually offer scholarships to students who can't afford
to attend otherwise. There is a broad range of students between
the ones elibible for scholarships and those who can pay. A good
many of these are well-served by the system of two-year, or "junior
colleges", which are largely supported through local property
taxes, where students can live at home and attend. After a successful
two-year course, they may transfer to a full-size school, or in
other cases begin a career or trade for which they've trained.
There are also government loans available, but must be repaid
after leaving school, not after reaching an income threshold, as
in the UK. In fact, the rate of truant student loans was quite high
until the government began tracking down delinquent borrowers.
Dario Enrique Prieto Rodriguez from Colombia writes:
Thanks a lot and greetings! I think governments won't be able
to pay more grants all around the world because of increasing population
and economic changes. The contributors are exhausted of paying taxes
and the curates of the benefits are not always well payd because
as we said in our country "si no nos cuesta, hagámoslo
fiesta". What it seems is if I have not commitment, why don't
I spoil this booty? (Am I understandable?).
So until two weeks ago (because of down-sizing I'm out now-
I was working with a guvernamental agency for indigenous peoples
of Colombia. One of the programmes I drived was a grant for maintenance
to the indigenous students in upper-levels of education. The benefitiaries
pay their loans by a commitment of communitary work in their communities
of origin. But it is difficult to verify and most of the benefitiaries
don`t do this work.
So I think is better governments try to lead positions in what
people have to do little efforts to grow in their lifes and addapt
to an increasing changing world.
Forgive me for my limited English!
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Syed najeeb ali kiddie from Pakistan writes:
Regarding fees in our country they are quite low according to
british standards but wouldn,t it be better to keep the fees low
for the student and spend more on education and less on defense
Ribeiro Marisa from Argentina writes:
I think the situation is unfair(In England). But , at the same
time, I am Argentinian, and I can tell you that in my country ,
we have private and state education. This situation we can find
out in initial level (kindergarten9, primary school, secondary school
and university. The goverment have been discussed about why not
regulate the university, but you know that my country has several
economic problems and people are very unhappy with politicians.
It is a controversial situation.It depends on the side of life you
are.
Eun-Kyung Park from South Korea writes:
I'm sorry to hear that Students in the UK can face to debts
beyond their ability. and I see some diffrence of culture in terms
of "education". tuition fees in korea are also very expensive.
but most of students are supported by their parents. I think parents's
support, in a sense, doesn't help their independence. but we can't
help it as long as we are not offered lots of jobs. even if we have
part-time jobs, the salary is not more than monthly allownce. whenever
a new semester begins, we demonstrate against an increase of tuition
fee, but it doesn't work. so I think if universities offer various
work-study jobs on campus, the money earned will pay for tuition.
It's worth a try.
Sunyi in China writes:
In my country, students have to pay for the learning in college.
It's unfair,but I think for a long time it will continue.
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Anna Gabrielová in the Czech Republic writes:
University education is free of charge in Cz.Republic . But for
the recent years there has been a constant discussion discussion
about this matter. The members of Right wing political parties have
been speaking about the need of paying it. However there has not
been any tradition concerning that, no system of student´s
loans etc. and strong disagreement of most of people in our country.
So as a result no political party wants to "go into it".
Lopez Fernando in Spain writes:
Hello.In my country University is not free but is less expensive
than hear.I think that the main problem in England is that everybody
who wants to study at university go out of their cities and that
is very expensive because you don't have only to pay fees furthermore
you have also to pay accommodation and food.
Sue Wong in China writes:
Whether a new policy is good or not depends on special social circumstances,
especially the country¡¯s economic level. In China, the
government cannot afford the education fees for so many students,
and if Chinese students could get loans from banks their future would
be brighter.
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Sammy in China writes:
i think it is expensive,i spend £35,000 on study english
and GCSE, before A-level, it will cost huge in A-level and university.
Kobe Van in China writes:
I think that will be fair only if it is followed by reasonable regulors.
Now in China,it is also the same case.But the regulors here may
not be fully reasonable.The stuedents who apply for the loans and
will be passed through are restricted in number.Still a large number
of students cannot get them so as to continue their studies.In some
places,the loan regulor is totally unaccessible for not-knowing
reasons.And the students cannot find much access to part-time jobs.So
many students find it hard to go on with their studies simply due
to lack in money.What a pity!Everyone would think so? Just wish
the Governments or relative associations and organisations would
do more in ensuring every-one who is ambitious can study what they
want without any anxiety.
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Kishore Chandra Swain in India writes:
Accepting money from the student wiil may cause extra mental
tension forfreshly graduated students. This system may force some
Intelligent students (poor students) to stay out of the higher study.
If the government is bound to accept money from the students the
amount should n't be so high and also there should be some sideby
programs for the students so they can pay back the money during
there study period, As most of the students are uncertain about
the career after the higher study. They may n't able to use their
whole resources for new activities as because they have to run behind
money in order to pay back the loan.
Is this system valid for foreign students study in UK?
Mahamadali in Sussex writes:
Yes, it's good way to payiny because it,s easier most of the
sudents than before. Also the most of sudents are glad to hear this
change.
Imran in Pakistan writes:
I think it is good idea to pay in future by its on. AS in our
country where peoples do not have enough money to survive in social
setting.If someone want to study he must have to submit the fees
before joining classes.I know two persons which failed to join medical
college after having good percentage in fsc only due to unabled
to pay the fees.It is good idea to pay himself after education.But
in my point of intially refunds must be less in amount then gradually
increased to some levels .i.e as first year after completing education
10 pounds or smaller because may in debt.Overall ithink it is good
idea.
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Viviane in Brazil writes:
I've learned so far that everything has a price in life. If
you are not born rich, you should try to be the most talented and
bright. It is the only way to go ahead.
In England a bank would at least consider giving a loan to a
student. It means the financial system at least believes you will
be able to pay your loan back after leaving university. In Brazil,
this rarely happens. Banks are not willing to assume the risk, since
lots of graduate students finish university and are either unemployed
or do not earn enough to pay the loan.
Here, we have two kind of universities: public and private ones.
The public universities are the best ones in terms of education,
where you are bound to find the best professors. One has got to
get high grades and face the competition to enter them, though.
The private ones have nice buildings but the level of education
is very low, since these private universities are mainly concerned
in making money.
Amélie in Belgium writes:
"Paying so much to receive higher education is shocking!
As it is said above,in the article,it discourages young people from
beginning higher studies and, we all know how much education determines
society! Think about the disastrous consequences it may have! In
Belgium, we still are lucky to pay the minimum but everything is
changing with Bologne Declaration... There is a demonstration expected
soon, to show to our authorities we are not ready for the Education
trade!! I send my best wishes to every -brave-english student!!!
Don't give up fighting anyway! Bye, Amélie from Belgium."
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Tereena nasary in Afghanistan-kabul writes:
Question - it is good to pay but we don't have the approunity of
learning more beacuse one side we have the internal war from other
side the resitiction on women education is too much .
John.x in China writes:
Yes, in our country, we have to pay for education and it's getting
more expensive. in my opinion, education should be free, quite a
lot countries paying mmassive money for army services and stupid
weapens, why not we use this money for education. if we develope
education, our world will be more beautiful with educated people.
James Yeung in Hong Kong writes:
I think that the new system of paying back the loans after graduation
is well recommended since many students or their families cannot
afford to repay the loans during study. It prodvides another option
for those who want to further their studies in university while
they have finacial difficuties. If they can afford such considerable
tuition fees, they are reluctant to incur a life-long debt.At least,
the poor students have opportunities for higher education under
this system.
In Hong Kong, we also have such similar system that university
students can repay their loans after graduation. The university
tuition fee per year is about HK$ 40,000 which is quite expensive.
Many students cannot afford it so that they would apply the government
loans for paying the fees and pay back after graduation. If poor
students want to get the loan at lower interest rate or even no
interest, they must pass the means tests. On the other hand, all
the university students, despite rich or poor, can apply the non-means
tested loan for their studies as long as they are willing to pay
the normal interests that the government decided. In the past, there
is no non-means tested loan for those who want to get university
education but cannot afford the fees and cannot pass the means test.
Therefore, many people give up their dreams of getting university
education since tuition fee is the main problem. The non-means tested
loan and the pay back system can help many people to a! chieve their
dreams although they will take the heavy burden for repaying the
loan after gradution. I think it is worth.
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Judy Gao in China writes:
Students loans is not popular in china.
Most of students had to rely on their parents to affords the tuition
but the pressure is the same, that means the parents had to face
big working pressure to earn more money. Many young parents nowadays
begin to make a education plan for their child, of cause a plan
to earn money.
Prof. Anwar Lodhi in Pakistan writes:
I think this is a very good decision,
as students in Britain will be prone to learn dedicatedly because
they would be pre-occupied with the idea that they would have to
pay later on.therefore they will leave no stone unturned to be qualitative
graduates. Moreover , they would rely more upon themselves than
the government.this programme will teach them self-reliance
Miao in China writes:
To my mind ,the the new way of paying is a good system entirly.Of
course ,every coin has its two sides,so does the system above.However,it
can enable the students from poor families to go over their high
education period without heavy spiritual or financial burden.Otherwise,these
students have to spend their precious time in earning money other
than study,omitting their initial purpoes.
In my country,we have to pay tuition fees by ourselves.Only some
outstanding students can get schorlarships from their university
and some specially poor student can get govenment schorlarships
to help them continue their study career.In my home university ,we
can get loans from commercial banks with low interests,just as in
U.K. We consider it a good idea to help the poor students and call
it "to realize today's dream with tomorrow'money.
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Anonymous in France writes:
In France, students pay for registration at university but not
for tuition. The teachers and professors are appointed and paid
by the Board of Education, they are civil servants. There are grants
for students who cannot afford to pay for their studies but those
are fewer and fewer, unfortunately. This year, two universities
in France (one in Paris, and one in Toulouse) had to close down
for a week or two because they didn't have enough money to pay for
the heating. So they decided to close down and save money by not
heating the buildings during the cold period and catching up in
the warm months (June and July). I guess a lot of people in France
don't realize how privileged we are not to have to pay for our tuition,
compared to many other countries around us, including the UK. Because
many abuse that rather generous system (by registering at university
just to have a grant or a student card which allows them to get
discounts!), it may not exist for a very long time! . Shame on us!
Farid Salmanov in Azerbaijan writes:
Actually I do not have much information about new changes in
the UK and frankly speaking have no time to get into them but I
think that the system in our country is quite OK.
There should always be public secondary schools and universities(free
education). And of course they should provide quite a good education,
at the same time no one argues against private schools and universities
but we must bear in mind that there will always be talented students
who can not pay for their education. That's why governments MUST
take certain obligations and support those students (at least we
do not pay taxes just for state workers salaries).
Jin in China writes:
I think the new way, is very bad system!
Kuang Xu in USA writes:
When I was studying in Beijing Foreign Studies University in 1988,
I didn't have to pay any tuition fees. The only things we had to
pay were the textbooks and the quilts in the dormitory. Generally
there was no need for the students to do part-time jobs because
most of the families could afford their children's living expenses.
However some students from poor families did engage in extracurricular
activities such as delivering bottles milk to the faculty's living
quarters in order to earn some pocket money. The head of this milk
delivering group was nicknamed "nipple" because the combination
of the words "head" and "milk" happens to be
pronounced the same as the word "nipple" in Chinese.
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Sang-Eun Nam in South Korea writes:
I think the new way of payment will make student to give up their
high education. I just came back from England and for foreign's
opinion, England are going to wrong for thier education, they only
think about money. which is more important?
Ban in China writes:
as a chinese,i saw seldom in china like this .our fee is more and
more with the year running.it means the development of china.however
,the rich become richer and the poor become poorer.it's obvious
in china nowadays,completely different from before.maybe it's common
in your country ,but...
Corine Saint Martin in France writes:
To my mind, it isn't a good system. It deprived from university
a lot of students who can't face paying back for 10 years or more
100€ a month for their studies. When you have, at least, succeeded
in finding a job, you want to rent a flat and some equipments for
it and maybe you have to buy a car, which is necessary to go to
work, and you can't face so many loans to repay. You feel as "poor"
as when you were student, despite of working. One of my friend had
borrowed money to pay for her studies at university. She started
to pay back when she got her first job (a badly paid job). She has
few money left after repaying her loan, and she couldn't lose this
job, because wihtout it she was unable to face her monthly paiements
and keep her flat.
In France, we have two different systems. On one side, universities
are nearly free. You have to pay tuition fees of only 250 to 300€
per year and you can get a grant from the state. The grants are
not very numerous and of high amount, but they exist and help people
from poorest families to go to university. Gathered with a part-time
job, students can go on. On the other side, we have private schools
which require high tuition fees (3000, 4500€... a year) and
which are often closed to poorest students, unless they get a loan
as written in the article. Actually, even whith a grant and a part-time
job, they haven't got enough money without a loan. But a loan is
easier to get for a student who comes from a wealthy family....
Before stopping, I want to apologize for all the mistakes I
should have done, but I wanted to give my opinion."
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Pamela Ding in the People's Republic of China writes:
I think this new way of paying loans after graduation when your
earnings reach a certain level is quite reasonable and helpful for
those who can't afford the University fees. In my country, only
a few number of students can get government loans, and most of them
should pay their education tuition. And for some students, parents
pay most of the fees, and though some other students do part-time
jobs to cover their studying expenditure and they also work hard
to get a scholarship from their colleage or university. In many
fine universities which provide students with a good system of scholarships
or some policies to help those from poorer families, students benifit
a lot because their study burden is greatly reduced and they can
be more concentrated on studying instead of squeezing every moment
to do part-time jobs.
Nowadays many Chinese students want to go to the UK to study, but
we find it's almost impossible to get a scholarship for most Chinese
oversea students though most British universities do get a much
previleged treatment for their own UK students.Dear Sir or Madam,
could I possibly ask where can I read something about the government's
policies for the overseas about scholarships?
Jose Jaimes in Venezuela writes:
I think, the new system, is a bad system, because the students
desert the university before finish your career or not enter in
the university, in my country have two types, goverment university(free)
and private university(pay for this), and have scholarship in both.
Pyedamammad Pyeda writes:
Yes, I am a student and have alot to say on this issue that you
have kindly raised. In respect of the price of educating oneself,
I would just suggest to pick an old copy of any institution's advertisement
etc say in 80's and compare the then prices with today's.I am doing
a course in paralegal studties and would tell you that a course
costing $58 in 1984 now costs $400 plus. Surprisingly the contents
of the course say common law are still the same, building is the
same but the cost has inflated hugely.
In Ontario the fees for Law colleges are being enhanced to a tune
of $22,000 plus annual. It is surprising how the poor students and
immigrants would go for it. In my view it is sade that the intenational
scenario has influenced the process of education in the entire world.
After the fall of Soviet Union no one has to worry about the welfare
of common man and provision of basic amenities to the individuals.
Higher education does fall any more in the very head and has now
become just a business...The third world is to suffer particularly
due to all this because earlier they had access to Soviet block
for free higer education and during the forty years thousands of
studnets were driven out from trees to become doctors, engineers
and other professional free of cost. Now those universities are
offering similar services against huge costs.
This means that the third world is to face a big crisis in coming
future in the field of finding highly educated professionals. To
me it is really alarming. The loan facilities for studnets is another
huge burden as one would wonder how to repay the loan and shoulder
the interest. Because the job markets after education is never predictable.
For those with the immigrants back gound situation is further bleak
beause their back home degrees are not considered to be valid enough
and they have to retake the same courses in their new homes. I have
a second class LLB from Pakistan besides an MA in Politics but still
the Ottawa University did not entertain my request for LLM and I
had to register for a Parlegal course to be eligible for working
with lower courts and official tribunals. This show that the professional
groups and organizations have their own safe guard mechanism where
under they are making it difficult for the foreign qualified professionals
to join in. Hence the market is being kept exclusively for themselves.
The same is situation with doctors and other medical people. I think
people should come forward to discuse the very issue and find a
remedy.
On first place if an immigrant is allowed immigrations on the basis
of his back home studies and standing then why they are not provided
with the opportunities to work in their new home? The privatisation
process has badly influenced students as they can not make pre planning
and budgeting. You will understand this with an example of hydro
billing that in the winter is being made to consumers here in Toronto
on the basis of consumers demand. Last month during a freezing outburst
the price of electric supply in Toronto was rapidly on rise with
the lowering of tempraute. This way an average house hold was to
pay some $10-50 more than the previous month. Similarly the cost
of transportation has gone up. In mid 80 the Toronto Transit System
would charge $34 a month that is now $98. And just the High School
students are allowed a couple of dollars concessions.. I think students
should be provided with biger tax brakes on make living and purchases?
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Thawatchai eiamkulbutr in Thailand writes:
Hello Remi O-host & Everybody. In Thailand the price of studying
is going to be higher & higher. That is because of the parents
willing to pay the best for their children. But there is some chance
of good student,by living in the goverment work family.With some
accounting support ,they could fight at entrance examination. The
way is to keep some path.
Syed najeeb ali kiddie from Pakistan writes:
Regarding fees in our country they are quite low according to
british standards but wouldn,t it be better to keep the fees low
for the student and spend more on education and less on defense
Ribeiro Marisa from Argentina writes:
I think the situation is unfair(In England). But , at the same time,
I am Argentinian, and I can tell you that in my country , we have
private and state education. This situation we can find out in initial
level (kindergarten9, primary school, secondary school and university.
The goverment have been discussed about why not regulate the university,
but you know that my country has several economic problems and people
are very unhappy with politicians. It is a controversial situation.It
depends on the side of life you are.
Eun-Kyung Park from South Korea writes:
I'm sorry to hear that Students in the UK can face to debts
beyond their ability. and I see some diffrence of culture in terms
of "education". tuition fees in korea are also very expensive.
but most of students are supported by their parents. I think parents's
support, in a sense, doesn't help their independence. but we can't
help it as long as we are not offered lots of jobs. even if we have
part-time jobs, the salary is not more than monthly allownce. whenever
a new semester begins, we demonstrate against an increase of tuition
fee, but it doesn't work. so I think if universities offer various
work-study jobs on campus, the money earned will pay for tuition.
It's worth a try.
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Sunyi in China writes:
In my country, students have to pay for the learning in college.
It's unfair,but I think for a long time it will continue.
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