Band 5+: In some countries, students pay their college or university fees, while in others, the government pays for them. Do you think the advantages of the government paying the money outweigh the disadvantages?

In developing countries like German and Italy, mostly in Europe, it is ture that student’s don’t have to pay for their colleges. They do not have fees or any charges in their universties. But still over 80% of countries charge students in the higher education.

From my perspective studying without tuition fees is a great strategy for countries with small population, because they have an opportunity to atract new students and future employees from other regions. For instance: Germany. It is one of the most developing countries in the world, they have world’s famous brands like BMW or Mercedez-Benz, yet they have a small population. Which is why they welcome international students and don’t charge them any money and give them free housing and moreover opportunities with one nuance: you must learn their language. As I mentioned before its an excellent opportunity for international sutdents and a great strategy for them to increase their population.By the time students graduate university offfer them jobs so that they could stay in Germany.

Now let’s look at the other side, paying while studying. Not going far from Germany we can have a look at the country with most expensive living and studying — England. They have a rocket sized tuition fees for any degree and living in England is pretty expensive too. While researching about universites like Oxford I found that they do not allow students to work too which is kind of awful if you come from low-income family. But one thing about payed universities is solid, it is that you get a proper knowledge. When it comes to studying for free many students fail because they don’t put anything in order to get knowledge, which leads them to become lazy or even drop out from the course.

On the other hand not all university students pay to study. Most of government universities offer full-ride, merid-based, student-debt scholarships to open doors to families with low-pay background.

At the end of the day, the conclusion is- It depends on the situation, pupil themselves, university which they are studing and the enviroment.