There has been a dramatic growth in the number of people studying at universities in the last few decades. While some people see this as a positive trend which raises the general level of education within the community, others fear that it is lowering the quality of education.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of the increase in student numbers at university?
Continuing tertiary education has become a phenomenal trend by innumerable students in recent years. Some argue that an increasing number of students has several advantages for science and workforce, whereas others suggest that it could have a negative influence on the quality of universities. This essay will outline the benefit and drawbacks this trend.
The major advantage of the increasing number of students is a substantial contribution to the science and society. Firstly, there are numerous fields in the science in which people are making groundbreaking improvements there, not mention to inventions. To do so, it requires an enrolment of a great deal of qualified personnel who have graduated higher education. Another benefit is that the unemployment rate could be minimized in order that most people, especially alumni would be given an opportunity to be highly paid jobs.
In contrast, it is of importance that the disadvantages of this trend are not overlooked. The first shortcoming is that it can, no doubt, lead to the exponential increase in the number of uncertified universities to meet a demand of these students. For example, it is not uncommon to see that students have no choice but study at unauthorized places in that the annual quota for well-known universities admissions, such as Harvard University is finite; therefore, their talent and knowledge might be ignored by employers. Another drawback can be a significant decrease in the quality of assessment. For instance, most universities are incapable to conduct individual assessments for numerous students; therefore, ordinary test examinations are introduced, instead. As a result, although students achieve higher scores, their knowledge may not be assessed fairly.
In conclusion, even though an increasing number of students can significantly benefit to the science and society, it can have an adverse impact on the quality of education. I believe that focusing on quality over quantity is a must.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, if, look, may, so, therefore, well, whereas, for example, for instance, in conclusion, in contrast, no doubt, such as, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 13.1623246493 137% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 7.85571142285 140% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 10.4138276553 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 7.30460921844 151% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 24.0651302605 91% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 41.998997996 90% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 8.3376753507 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1687.0 1615.20841683 104% => OK
No of words: 309.0 315.596192385 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.45954692557 5.12529762239 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1926597562 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.17095299054 2.80592935109 113% => OK
Unique words: 174.0 176.041082164 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.563106796117 0.561755894193 100% => OK
syllable_count: 535.5 506.74238477 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 5.43587174349 147% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.4278710478 49.4020404114 112% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.466666667 106.682146367 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.6 20.7667163134 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.0666666667 7.06120827912 143% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.120483910636 0.244688304435 49% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0407492866566 0.084324248473 48% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.036732632096 0.0667982634062 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0699436040692 0.151304729494 46% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0411631243495 0.056905535591 72% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.6 13.0946893788 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 50.2224549098 85% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.3001002004 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.39 12.4159519038 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.69 8.58950901804 113% => OK
difficult_words: 99.0 78.4519038076 126% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.7795591182 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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