Tertiary Education: The Long Fight To Freedom
According to oxford dictionary tertiary education is the third level of one’s school career. For a long time there have been people suggesting that tertiary education should be free, but there were those who were truly against it. Making tertiary education free would cause Namibia would cause the financial crisis to worsen, the government won’t be able to handle the entire tertiary bill alone, and there will be too many graduates. These are all points raised by people against free university. Free tertiary education would give everyone a fair chance of into getting into university, less burden on students, and it gives a lot of people encouragement to graduate.
Making tertiary education free would cripple the country economically, because according to Anderson (2018) it raises questions such as where would the money come from? Because according to former Prime Minister Nahas Angula “education should be a collective responsibility and it cannot be up to government to foot the entire tertiary education bill alone”. This means that it won’t be sustainable in the long run. Free tertiary education would mean that there would be a lot of graduates and according to an article published in the Namibian Sun graduates have a bleak opportunity of finding jobs here as it is, if there are to be more than the amount of qualified unemployed people would skyrocket.
On the other hand if tertiary education was to be free, it would give everyone a fair chance of getting into a university, because it will mean that even the less fortunate that don’t qualify for student loans and can’t pay for themselves will get a chance to study, thus lessening the burden the burden of paying back student loans. The number of people that graduate from university will increase thus creating a much more educated society and workforce.
Based on the points raised in the above paragraphs, making tertiary education free would seriously impact our economy in a bad way because the government is already burdened by free high school and secondary school, and it is barely sustainable. So if free tertiary is implemented it would degrade the country’s economic status.
Conclusion
This essay focused on the pros and cons of making tertiary education free. Making education free would paralyse the economy, more educated people will be unemployed as the job market will be saturated by other graduates and the government won’t be able to settle the bill towards the universities. Although those are all negatives there are also positives like free tertiary education can lead to a much more intelligent society, it also gives everyone a fair chance of graduating and going to university, and it also relieves burden that students have to carry after graduating cause they don’t have to pay back loans.
