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Some people believe that the government should make university education free for all. Others disagree and say students should pay for their own education. Discuss both views and give your own opinion.

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The idea of free tertiary
education
 fully funded by government causes debates in the society. For some people
this
 is the best strategy, while others claim that students should be responsible for their expenses for study. Both opinions have grounds and they need to be closely examined. On the one hand, the proponents of free access to higher
education
 support their view with some important reasons. Among them is the fact that free
education
 would positively affect the general educational level in a country, which in its turn would expand highly qualified workforce and,
as a result
, would have improved the economy at large. It is
also
 important to keep in mind that free higher
education
 would provide equal rights to all categories of students, including those who cannot afford to study at a university level.
By contrast
, there are people who believe that students should cover their higher
education
, not government.
This
 can be exemplified by the fact that access to
this
 type of
education
 should be competitive and selective in order to the elevate the status of higher
education
 and prepare a cohort of highly professional specialists. On another note,
besides
 supporting higher
education
, government has to subsidize many other spheres of public life.
Therefore
, only school
education
 should be free for all citizens, whereas tertiary studies should be open only for those who can meet the expenses. To conclude, in my view, there should be a balance in allocating public funding for university
education
, and governments should provide a certain percentage of merit-based and need-based financial aid to make higher
education
 more accessible.
This
 policy is especially true for those countries which cannot afford entirely free
education
 systems, and
this
 is why avoiding paying higher
education
 is hardly possible in
such
 countries.
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