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The rising cost of education. I've yet to receive a response from my institution or others that I've considered, of why it is they keep raising their fees, tui
by CaptainMorgan 18y ago
The rising cost of education.
I've yet to receive a response from my institution or others that I've considered, of why it is they keep raising their fees, tuitions, etc.., especially in a recessed economy. It seems to me to be counterproductive - folks are losing their jobs, therefore losing their finances, and now possibly finding out that they need more training or they need to enter a new field, thus requiring education. Yet considering these financial difficulties, institutions continue to raise their fees with hopeless abandon.
I asked multiple departments in my university about this and essentially they diverted my call or in-person conversation to some other department, or they said it was a political matter and basically being a lowly student, there's no way I could get a meeting with those that approve these raises, without my belonging to some student body committee protesting these rates... and then we're only supposed to be there for four years anyways as undergrads so it could take more than that to see any preferred and immediate result.
I suppose this is where financial aid comes into play, but even so depending on your application factors, the fees still rise, so that could possibly mean that you'll owe more money when you get out or you need to be approved for more grants that don't need to be paid back which implies more scrutiny in your application.
meh, I'm fed up with this subject.. any thoughts?
- tokenadult 18y agoThird-party payment is indeed the main reason nominal cost for education (I might say "degree-granting") rises without notable improvements in quality. In most of private industry in which customers pay for their own consumption, quality goes up over time at constant price, or price drops at constant quality, or you even get better quality at lower price over time. But not in education. Few people pay much directly out of their own pockets for the education they consume. See http://learninfreedom.org/school_state.html http://learninfreedom.org/school_state.html for some reading matter on this issue.
- rokhayakebe 18y agoMove to France or Germany. They hacked Education to the point where it is free, and in some cases you will get money for books,etc...
- corentin 18y agoObviously the teachers in France and Germany aren't paid, and the buildings and furniture just felt down from the sky.
- icey 18y agoThey didn't hack education until it was free. They raised taxes until it was a shared cost paid for by every tax payer. The same is true for the healthcare systems there. (And everything else that's government funded pretty much anywhere... With the exception of oil-rich countries, I suppose.)
- Zak 18y agoI think you're conflating education and the granting of credentials[0]. Education is cheaper and easier to obtain than ever before. It's possible to work through an entire graduate degree program worth of study material using resources freely available online. I think the problem you seem to be interested in - the rising cost of formal education that results in a degree will be solved not by reducing its cost, but by reducing its value. It will continue to cost a lot to get a degree, but you probably won't want one. [0] which seem to be growing less important: http://paulgraham.com/credentials.html http://paulgraham.com/credentials.html
- Tichy 18y agoWikipedia