Essay On Tuition Fees

Firstly, paying tuition fees of private university is already not an easy task for them. As the government announced that price freezes of tuition fees of universities in Taiwan was ended, some argued that tuition fees of universities in Taiwan was too high that increase of tuition fee would add extra burden on disadvantaged students. To assess whether universities in Taiwan charges too much, one of the possible ways is to compare with tuition fees of foreign universities. However, it is not appropriate to only compare with others using numbers, so some scholars suggested that percentage of tuition fees and per capital income or household disposable income (Yang, 2003). According to “The Review Report of Rising Tuition Fees and Higher Education

In the past, as universities were prepared for elite education, people who were able to receive tertiary education were one in a million. Government were willing to invest more resources on education and these resources were sufficient to allow those gifted students to receive education with high quality (Tsai & Shavit, 2007). However, after the late 1980s, the policy of expansion of higher education was adopted, more and more students were able to receive higher education (Lin & Yang, 2009). However, since the government needed to allocate resources for other disadvantaged groups, she failed to invest enough resources to catch up the increasing need of educational resources. Educational cost was transferred to school, parents and students. On one hand, private schools are required to be responsible for their own profit and loss so that the government could invest less on education. On the other hand, the government hopes that students and parents can use actions to eliminate schools that are under standard in order to cut down schools that need resources. As a result, the image of “public schools provide the best education and private schools provide uneven quality of education”, which sacrifice students’ chances of receiving