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DEBATE: INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS ARE CHARGED UNFAIRLY HIGH TUITION FEES AT UK UNIVERSITIES
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS ARE CHARGED UNFAIRLY HIGH TUITION FEES AT UK UNIVERSITIES
Education transcends international boundaries
No because;
Why not education is a business.
And our economy substantially depends on foreign people and their money.
If they are happy to come; why shouldn’t we celebrate by charging them the amount that we need to get our bread and butter and sit idle at home on our backs.
We are preveliged to had our predecessors ruled forein countries and made the all the wealth.
As a famous dicoverer of human genetic material said, we are superior human beings in this world.
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS ARE CHARGED UNFAIRLY HIGH TUITION FEES AT UK UNIVERSITIES
"TAX" THE WAY IT IS…
Most of the Home students and their families would argue about the fact that Tuition Fees cannot be equally laid down for both International and Home students simply because of the TAX they have been paying all throughout their lives. Glancing at their reasoning might make you say YES, THEY HAVE GOT A POINT! But looking closer at the issue will open your eyes to the blatant reality that is being ignored, and unseen. This argument could have been forceful if we were talking about twenty or thirty years ago, but looking at the current status quo, it is not. Most of the benefit seekers or those being supported by the social welfare fund are, obviously, the English nationals. They have the rights to claim and claim as much as they want, leaving the social burden on those who actually work, normally 3-4 jobs per person, and pay tax without getting anything back except for endless deductions and other miscellaneous contributions. Most of these hardworking individuals, who pay taxes NOW more than BEFORE, are foreigners. Even the INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS themselves are forced and obligated to work and juggle study and job in one go, just to finance and support their education. Here’s one funny but annoying truth… these international students are TAXED very highly because most of them are doing part-time work and still CHARGED very high in university fees because they’re foreign. Meanwhile another student, who’s jobless and has parents who are claiming disability or jobseeker’s allowance are paying normal fees. Well, if that’s the case, its better to change the basis for fees from nationality to income and financial stability!
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS ARE CHARGED UNFAIRLY HIGH TUITION FEES AT UK UNIVERSITIES
VERY SIMILAR YET VERY DIFFERENT
Right, granted, an equal charge for fees is not feasible. Can these International Students get something extra with the 5000 pound more that they’re paying? AS USUAL, NO! If the government and these universities cannot level the tuition fees between International and Home students, why not provide the former some extra service like free English classes, tutorials or books? One of the most depressing realities taking place at the moment is that, after all those astronomical payments, these International Students have to pay whenever they want to perfect their English and learn more of the language, THEY STILL HAVE TO PAY FOR IT. It’s like another service, another expense, another problem, MONEY AGAIN! International and Home students are getting exactly the SAME MODULES, SAME TUTOR, SAME SERVICE, SAME FACILITIES, SAME LEARNING CENTRE HOURS, SAME BUS SERVICE, SAME VENDING MACHINE, SAME TOILETS, SAME ID CARD… but there is a £5000 difference separating the millions of similarities between them. Unfortunate but true!
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS ARE CHARGED UNFAIRLY HIGH TUITION FEES AT UK UNIVERSITIES
UK students should have priority to UK Universities
The most common answer… a street response to a very crucial issue.
Indeed, this is their place and this is where they live, therefore it is just fair and equal to charge Home Students a lower fee compared to International Students. After all, the latter were given already the opportunity to live and settle in a place that is not theirs, use the country’s resources and services, and share with the real inhabitants the benefits provided by the government. The fact that they were welcomed into the country is a big blessing; it is too much then to ask for more and more, especially if it concerns major aspects of living like education.
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS ARE CHARGED UNFAIRLY HIGH TUITION FEES AT UK UNIVERSITIES
We need the money
The cost of higher education in the UK is far greater than the amount a UK student pays.
Without the higher fees that come from international students, UK students would be paying a lot more than they are, which would be bad for several reasons.
Firstly, it would lower the numbers of UK students who go to university, particularly from poorer backgrounds. Education is the best way to get out of poverty, so keeping poor people out of education is self-evidently a bad thing.
Secondly, and consequently, it would lower the number of graduates in the job market. Graduates are an increasingly valuable resource in our economy, which transformed to a predominantly service-based economy (with manufacturing outsourced to e.g. China). Having lots of graduates is a good thing for the British economy.
Thirdly, it would push taxes up as the government would need to find money to pay for higher education from somewhere else. A high tax burden is not a good thing for a country, as it means the general populace has less money to spend on the goods and services that keep the economy buoyant.
Because higher fees from international students keeps the cost down not only for UK students but indeed the UK taxpayer, this ‘discrepancy’ should remain.
