Should University Education Be Free of Charge

Should University Education Be Free of Charge?

Education is a way to understand the real world better and whether this education should be provided to university students freely or not is one of the most debated topics over the last decades. It is a topical issue, which is discussed all over the world. Nowadays, people need education in order to survive in this fast-growing civilization. Everyone understands the value of education and on that account the competition to get into the most approved universities is very fierce. University education should not be free of charge, but these fees should not be as astronomically high as they are in so many countries. The situation is different in America, in Great Britain and Slovakia and it can be effective to compare these 3 distinct countries.

There are many universities in the world, both state and private ones, which offer a variety of study fields.

University of Oregon

University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

University of Oregon

Let us imagine that all of these universities were free of charge. This way everyone would apply for them and after successfully finishing their studies, they would start to seek for a job. The source of the problem would be that there would be too many graduates to begin with. There would be a lot of teachers, architects, lawyers etc., who would not find a place to work. It would lead to a rise of the unemployment and lastly to the downfall of the economy. This picture is not so far away from reality, because even now (with charged university fees) there is a huge number of unemployment caused partially by the fact that people are not able to work in their field of study. Another problem may appear because of the quickly rising amount of university fees. There are young people from poor families who are clever...