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Should university studies be subsidized? [9]
Hi everyone, I am Vimukthi from Sri Lanka and I am preparing for IELTS exam. Please make appropriate corrections to my essay.
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While government should pay for the primary and secondary studies, university studies should not be subsidized. To what extend do you agree or disagree?Every nation spends a huge amount of money on education, because it has more benefits. Due to that reason primary and secondary education are compulsory in most countries.
A country can gain many benefits from having a proper education system and as well as educated citizens. It is easier for any country to expand its economy if it had an educated and efficient work force. Balancing act is the value of higher education for democracy. A healthy democracy requires civic engagement in both participation and leadership within government and civic organization.
To provide free primary, secondary and university education is not an easy task for any nation because it costs lot of public funds to maintaining and providing new facilities to its growing population. As an example my home country Sri Lanka provides free primary, secondary and higher education for all its citizens. There are many public schools in Sri Lanka which run by the government, and all universities are funding by the government .Sri Lanka annually spends 4% of its G.D.P, on free education, it's a lot of money for a developing county but that is the reason why our literacy rate is so high as a developed country, its 92% .
I think that every government must give an opportunity for its citizens to get access to the higher education otherwise it will be a luxury thing, because poor parents can't afford university fees. Its cost about three million rupees per student to complete university education in Sri Lanka, if parents had to pay half of the fees, it will be 1.5 million rupees. In Sri Lanka average income of a middle class family is about 20000 Rs, if they had save 15000Rs per month it will get ten years to save 1.5 million RS. So you can imagine how importance is giving free university education in Sri Lanka.
For many children in poor and developing countries education is the only way out of poverty. My opinion is every nation must provide free primary, secondary and university education.