Governments should offer a free university education to any student who has been admitted to a university but who cannot afford the tuition

Education is a vital requirement for the progress and development of nations. The increase in the level of knowledge among the people will be directly reflected in its development level. Therefore I total agree that governments should offer a free university education to any student who has been admitted to a university but who cannot afford the tuition.

Since education is a responsibility of the governments and it is included in the annual budget. Therefore they have to take into consideration the equality among all people. They should offer equal opportunities among their people, no bias to any group other than the other. There should be no differentiation between races, casts and social levels. Taking the university tuition as criterion to compare the differentiation among the government practices, we will conclude that it will be unfair for the poor people, as only the rich people will afford the high tuition fees of universities and they will be the only people in society who hold university degrees. For more clarification, only the children of the doctors, engineers, businessmen will be well educated and join universities while the majority of average and below average caste in the society will still have to be working as white collars. This will increase the gap between social levels in the society.

In addition, the government investing in its people will be the mean for its development and progress. In order for the government to eliminate and decrease the level of illiteracy among its citizens, it has to spread education and help people earn degrees. As to the increase in globalization and technology, governments have to cope with that spread of technology and knowledge among countries. If they did not help majority of people earn university degrees, they will not cope with that vast spread of knowledge. For example, developing countries where governments do not have a big budget for education, not all people are well educated and therefore affecting the progress and development of these countries. I think that governments should focus on education in order to develop the skills of the people.

To conclude, governments will not be able to cope with the knowledge era and globalization unless concentrated on the educational level of its people. The progress and development level of nations will be measured by the number of well-educated people in the society. Also they should decrease the gap among social levels and give them all the same opportunities to be educated and receive university degrees. Therefore I strongly agree that governments should offer a free university education to any student who has been admitted to a university but who cannot afford the tuition.