Opinion Piece 1 - Tuition

Lowering Tuition
Pimentel
February 16th, 2020 5:00pm

I believe paying for tuition is good, although I do believe that if we are paying for tuition that it should be lowered. In recent years tuition has been raised by about 3 - 4%. The reason that tuition has been raised is for an increase in financial aid, demand surge, a need for more faculty and being able to pay them, a lack of funding from the provincial government, and for increasing student services.
 If students had to focus less on working to afford school, they could concentrate on graduating with proper education to get a higher paying job. Students are stressing more about finances these days than an actual test. But lowering the fees will make grants, tax credits and loans downsize, which means poorer students will be more likely to pay for more university/college. If fees were lowered the decrease in tuition would mainly be benefited more to the wealthier students.
A theory for this tuition could be represented along the lines of any sale at the mall, one person buying a full price item at 20 dollars while five but a sale price item at 15 dollars more money would be mind, although you are just lowering the cost a little bit for an item compared to it being full price. Which the same could be done for universities and colleges, by lowering tuition and having more kids become students and go into the study of choice and not just what they can afford. With the lowering of the cost of tuition, the homeless population would decrease as well, as they would have an education and an ability for a high paying job to be able to afford a house.
Although there are many positives and negatives towards the price of tuition, it seems there are more benefits to society as there would be more graduating students, which causes more jobs to be filled, and more advances to our economy. At this point in time, I believe tuition should still be paid for but lowered in cost.

Comments

  1. Linda OstromFebruary 22, 2020 at 10:51 PM

    I don't think it is just about lowering tuition fees. It's also about providing monetary support for those in the low to middle income wage bracket. It is why the British Columbia Federation of Students after years of lobbying, are excited about the BC NDP Government's removal of interest on BC student loans and the recent budget announcement of an upfront grant of up to $4000 for those in that low to middle income the opportunity to attend a post secondary institution.

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  2. Wil HarrisFebruary 23, 2020 at 7:34 PM

    I feel like this approach could work! Having a lower tuition cost could bring better opportunities to those who can't afford it while keeping a good budget that can provide extracurricular services.
    I believe over time this idea could help benefit the surrounding community and people With said opportunities and help out those who can't afford tuition.

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