So, how could someone pay for it? Scholarships are becoming increasingly harder to receive because more people require them to get into the school of their choice. I know personally that I will not be able to go to my preferred school if I do not get a decent scholarship. College tuition is simply too high; colleges must reduce or freeze their tuition to make an education at their school accessible to all. People that come up with these prices for tuition are not thinking about the accessibility they need to have to prospective students.
College Failure It has always been believed that higher education is a key factor for success. Attending a college or university provides more opportunities for graduates, which are not as widespread to those who have not received a higher education. However, sometimes possessing a college diploma seems not to be enough for employers, who are more and more valuing the graduates’ job skills over their grades. According to Kathleen Parker’s article “Colleges are prepping students for failure”, colleges are not adequately preparing students for their future jobs. Thus, employers insist that students should increase their educational achievements.
With the rising tuition education is going to be very hard to acquire. So it is time for America to change and find a way to lower these ridiculous prices. A College Board report found that about 66% of students who earned a bachelor's degree in 2008 graduated with a substantial amount of debt. This proves that the cost of tuition is rising and in another report, it determined that the average debt of the class of 2008 owed $23,200. This was determined by the Project on student debt, a non profit organization.
Less than half of the new recruits stayed to finish the 20 year service, however for those who chose to be inactive after 4 years, very few pursue a university degree for many varying reasons. For some, they would prefer to have a family (if their not married yet), work, and pursue online courses. Others would ignore advance education totally, and yet others in some isolated cases where veterans will find it hard to adapt to a civilian lifestyle at which point they will drift psychologically and emotionally as worst scenario. The smarter and ambitious veterans though, would take advantage of most educational programs available so that some will have very successful future
Bijena Adhikari Jerome Parent English 121-56I 03/29/2012 The value of college In this century “the value of college” has been a big debate among the parents, student and the professor themselves. College is not a gateway which guarantees better jobs and better salaries, but it definitely makes a huge difference while accruing one. College is a guideline for stepping out in a real world and tackling real problems. While the tuition fees are increasing every year so as the curiosity, is it worth spending that huge amount of money? And after graduating will there be a secured job?
It is inevitable to think that during this economy recession a four days school week could be a cost saving measure; however, it is a big mistake to take away one day of school since it will affects parents, child, staff and the country in many different ways. Gregory A Shmidt’s essay, “We Like the Four-Day Week”, explains how the switch to a four days schedule could be beneficial for the staff, students and budget savings. But, he didn’t mention how that system will affect parents’ pockets. U.S.A Today editorial board questions how reducing one day of school will be a saving if parents will be spending more on day care “what about the family cost of day care for a child home alone on a weekday?” (307). In fact, parents regularly work five days a week leaving their kids in school for those days.
One way of overcome this is to do research. Parents who hope to afford college for their children when the time comes around are better off researching options than simply trying to save more money for education. [ (Insider, 2011) ] Having options will make it better to decide how much you will spend for college. For example, it may be cheaper to go to a community college than a university. Now that the research and financial aid is done you now know how much you have to come out of pocket with.
People who go to college now pay to go there and if they fail a class they just wasted a lot of money. If the government paid for everyone’s education then no one would think they would have to work hard and they would think they would have to work hard and they would end up failing once they moved in to there career. The only people that deserve to go to college for free are people that earn a scholarship or those who apply for financial aide. These programs are there for the people that have the desire to go to college. Most people that think a higher education should be free are not very wealth but there are programs like financial aide to help them if they have the desire to get a higher education.
With more layoffs and job losses, many people are finding that if they have a degree, even if they lose a job, they can find another possibly better job somewhere else. A common reason why people do not go back to school is that they believe they cannot afford to go to college. Many employers now offer funding for higher education. There are many grants and scholarships available as well.
I used to study in Hong Kong since I was born, until last year I came to the states for studying in college. According to Sanford Ungar’s essay “The New Liberal Arts”, “A liberal-arts degree is a luxury that most families can no longer afford. “Career education” is what we now must focus on.” (Ungar 190) Hong Kong has the same situation, most parents wonder their children study in medical or business major, but not arts. It is because of their narrow thinking that arts major couldn’t get a better job than medical or business major. My parents had that thought before too, especially my father always wants me to study in business major.