Presentation of a subject - tuition fees in colleges and universities should be abolished

This speech was presented as part of part 2 of the discussion that dealt with suggestions for improvement higher education By Moshe Vanuno - lawyer and accountant

My proposal is to completely abolish tuition fees. Let's start with statistics - when tuition fees are lower, the number of students is higher, for example in Russia or Germany. I will mention two national interests that prove this fact. The first is economic and the second is social

Education as a social right

The social, which is also moral, means that every person has social rights and equality as much as we can grant. The same law applies to education - there is a right to education like a right to security, like a right to clean air. Since it is impossible to impose the entire cost on the learner, tuition fees should be canceled - in the same way that the cost of security is not charged to someone who lives near the border.

The economists call it a 'public good' and they have long claimed that it is one of the things that the state should finance.

long term investment

The economic argument says that in the long term investment in human capital is the most economic thing that contributes to economic growth.

There is the cliché that says that those who want to invest for months plant wheat, those who want to invest for years plant trees, and those who want to invest for decades educate people. The profit from an academic education is not only for the person himself, but also for everyone around him and especially for the children he will raise. It is a profit that we all enjoy, because when a person acquires knowledge and distributes it, we as a society do not need to distribute more knowledge at an additional cost - it happens by itself.

Think how expensive it would be to produce an education system of a standard that would correspond to what a child of academic parents receives at home, when his parents are not academics.

Review

• Spring- For the economic argument: there is no debate at all about capital investment, a question of how to finance it. If we don't finance and there won't be a source.
• Regarding the social argument - everyone has to pay, the fact that people have a right does not mean that the state can finance it.
• Vladimir- I am against life without tuition fees. This is government funding that will require a very high investment, which will require a waiver of welfare, and infrastructure and insurance.
• Manny - There are no budgetary sources, and there is no reason to think that this will provide a greater benefit than the cost.

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Opening positions

• Position: raise tuition fees
• Tuition should remain
• Speech: separate teaching from research
• to lower politicization of faculties

speeches presented

• raise tuition fees
• lower tuition fees
• Weak strata and academia
• to cut the budget and OT
• Tuition financing with loans
• Completely cancel the tuition fee
• Cutting costs in the academy
• Differential tuition
• Disconnect research from teaching

• Where to limit freedom of speech?
• Settlements - for and against
• Kidnapped soldiers and bereaved families

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• A discussion about sex and morality
• Between the High Court and Alferon
• Medicine and morality
• A crisis in the education system
• lecture The economic crisis
• Live debate: Who should be the prime minister?
• Quality-Environment: What is there to debate?
• What caused the economic crisis?

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