Nowadays many students live with their familes while others go to another city to study at a university. Discuss advantages and disadvantages of both scenarios. Include relevant examples in your answer.

In recent times, a large number of undergraduates attend higher institutions from their various homes, while some others are schooling far away from their place of abode. These two options have their pros and cons.

This

essay will discuss the positive side of studying at a university within the

home

environment as helping to increase the family bond and interaction, though at the expense of having adequate exposure and social experience, which schooling in a different city will afford them. On the one hand, when learners stay within the comfort of their parents and families and are enrolled in a nearby tertiary

center

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, they are able to bond better with their family members, particularly their parents.

This

means the parent can monitor them better, and can easily appreciate what they are going through.

Such

children have better communication with their parents, and

this

can even make them perform greatly in their schools.

For instance

, many of the students that are involved in bad social vices like cultism and rape, have their problems traceable to family breakdown and poor family social bonding and connection

in addition

to not being properly monitored at

home

.

On the other hand

, allowing children to travel to another place outside of the

home

for university education

also

has its own benefits. One of

such

advantages is the ability of the child, to get exposed to the larger society and

thus

, better able to effectively socialize and incorporated into the community at large. Through their schooling in a different city from their place of upbringing, they develop experience by learning from the culture that operates in

this

new locality which helps them to function better in society.

For example

, some evidence has shown that

such

undergraduates perform better in the

labor

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market; when they finish school. In conclusion, though; schooling from the

home

environment; has the benefit of cementing the family relationship and bonding, it

also

has its drawback of not allowing learners to develop adequate exposure and experience outside the

home

environment.