Presentation of a position in the discussion - in favor of raising tuition fees
Presentation of positions on the state of the academy within the framework Speech and Debate Club
Speech by Vladimir Naumovsky - engineer Contrary to the other participants in the discussion, I will actually argue that tuition fees should be raised and I will give 3 reasons - 2 economic ones: on funding and on human resources, and another social argument.
Academy fundingWe are in a crisis, and here it is more difficult to finance the universities and colleges. Where does the funding come from? Mainly from the state, and another 20% from donations from Jews from abroad, etc. Today the government has less budget, and the rich who contributed also lost a lot in the crisis and contribute less. We see that more essential services such as National Insurance have been frozen, or that investments in transportation such as a light rail that does not start - both the companies in difficulties and the donors - those who invested in the stock market have collapsed, and what is left? Only the tuition that needs to go up. Human resourceThe second reason is manpower and human resources. The goal of the universities is research, and the way to achieve it is to get senior faculty at the universities. If the government doesn't have it and the donors don't have it, and if we don't fall on the students, we have to cut back on the lecturers. Distinguish between college and universityThe third reason is the value. Today there are two types of institutions - colleges whose purpose is to spread knowledge, to train graduates to work in the economy. The university is the one that produces knowledge, both the ivory tower and the flagship that produce research such as those that won Nobel Prizes for academics here - for example in the development of new drugs and discoveries about the structure of proteins. In contrast, a medical college will only train doctors to use the knowledge and treat doctors how it relates. When you want to achieve a higher quality of education and a higher level, the tuition fees should be higher than in colleges. It is both a matter of brand and a matter of prestige and also a matter of value for money. I will reserve that those who need scholarships will of course get them. In an ideal world we would like tuition to go down, but there is no choice. SummarySo in practice, the current situation is not ideal, but it is probably better than all the alternatives, because it preserves the distinction between research universities and colleges focused on teaching, because it makes the most of the human resource under budgetary constraints, and because it simply works Register now for the public discussion |
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