Why we must have free University education?

University education should be made free. Not everyone can afford tertiary level education.
I give you three reasons for free university or tertiary education which are; the rising costs of courses, the financial burden imposed on students from loans and the economic benefits gained from free university education. 
        Firstly, not everyone can afford a university education. University courses which offer greater employability are expensive to provide. Courses such as engineering, information technology, medicine, and specialised courses such as physics and chemistry require expensive and sophisticated computers, software, and other complex machines to instruct students. The universities also need to recruit well trained and knowledgeable tutors and lecturers who will demand high salaries. As a consequence, the universities have to raise tuition fees or opt for cheaper distance learning courses which lack the human contact found in full time university courses. Research from the British and German ministries of Education and the German DAAD foundation has shown meteoric increases in the costs incurred by universities in providing courses in civil and nuclear engineering, computer science and medicine. Sometimes universities have to close a faculty because there are not enough students available. The unavailability of sufficient students stems significantly from the high cost of tuition. According to research by Cornell University in the United States, there is continual rise in tuition fees due to inflation and reduced   government expenditure which causes universities to impose higher tuition fees.

        Secondly, there are many poor families who have children who are very intelligent and capable. The parents of these children and even the students themselves will be forced to take loans to pay for university courses. A student who is repaying his or her loan will not be able to focus on their studies well. Research in the United States and Canada has shown that the increasing tuition fees of many students in both private and government universities are so high that students suffer from depression and an inability to focus on their studies while being burdened with loan repayment. The North American research has also shown these students and their parents will still be repaying loans long after the students have graduated. This causes only affluent families to be able afford good university courses. This is a terrible social inequality and it must be addressed with the correct policies to correct it. Education is not the privilege of the rich but a human right for all. As the late President Nelson Mandela said "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Surely, we can change the social inequalities in our country with free university education. There will be better educated people who will earn well. This will eradicate social inequalities and make our society better.

        Thirdly, there are tremendous economic benefits to be gained in providing free university courses. With more well qualified graduates’ employers will have a big pool of manpower to source their personnel. This country like many others are getting involved in specialized industries such as information technology, bio-technologies and advanced engineering such nuclear and automotive technologies. We are also seeing sophistication in the service industries like banking, insurance and international finance. This global phenomenon requires a large pool of well qualified people and instead of having to recruit foreign expatriates at high cost we have a ready-made pool of labor. A large pool of well qualified graduates will see greater innovations in these new industries because there are more people to provide new ideas and inventions.

        So in conclusion, I recommend that university education be made free. By making university education free the universities will need to impose high fees because they will get government funding to reduce their costs. Also, we will allow students from poor families to excel in life and eradicate social inequalities. Lastly, the country will realize enormous economic benefits.