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This graph says everything you need to know about higher education: http://www.businessinsider.com/inflation-update-2011-1 http://www.businessinsider.com/inflat

• nugget 11y ago
  Top universities are benefiting from globalization the same way that real estate owners in global cities are...there is an almost endless demand for their product. If all qualified high schoolers from around the world could participate in an auction to win a spot in Harvard or MIT's incoming class, the annual tuition would be hundreds of thousands of dollars. But this only applies to a small cluster of top schools and it drops off pretty quickly.
• phkahler 11y ago
  Government involvement in student loans is the direct cause of that.
  • bdamm 11y ago
    Are you saying governments shouldn't create policy that allows student loans?
    • dogma1138 11y ago
      No they shouldn't when loans are guaranteed to cover your tuition and for the most part you are guaranteed a loan prices soar because there is no incentive to lower the costs, the uni's make more money, and banks and the government makes more money, and student are stuck with the bill. This doesn't mean that governments shouldn't fund publicly accessible higher education, it just means that they need to do it in a smarter way. Picking up the cheque (permanently or temporarily) always results in inflation, we see this in health care, we see this in housing, we see this in education.
      • jeza 11y ago
        I agree that student loans don't do the student much justice and there must be a smarter way of funding education. In Australia our HECs loan system essentially funds research which may benefit society as a whole but hardly benefits students when course content is in some cases years out of date. As it's a loan system that graduates don't repay until their income reaches a certain threshold (essentially an extra tax), with government approval this has allowed course fees to creep upwards. I don't agree with the general comment on inflation. For instance, I'm not aware of Australia's medicare system leading to higher medical treatment costs. If anything it provides a base level of care and limits the amount that any private medical provider could provide. In any case I'm certain that private insurance companies facilitate the same kind of inflation as they don't seem too concerned about the cost of services rendered when they can simply pass that onto their customers as a higher premium (which they in turn benefit from). At least where government spending is concerned, inflation can be managed.
    • deciplex 11y ago
      Governments probably shouldn't subsidize a thing without implementing some sort of price control, as well.