Governments should offer a free university education to any student who has been admitted to a university but who cannot afford the tuition. [Specific Task Instruction: Write a response in which you discuss your views on the policy and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider the possible consequences of implementing the policy and explain how these consequences shape your position.]
1. 了解一下目前世界上一些国家的教育制度和体系,描述其中某一个或几个国家政府对高等教育的管理和资金支持情况。
回答:
Germany and France, government offer free or almost free university education to native students who can accomplish tasks in time. The US, help qualified students in various ways, based more on personal performance instead of household income: Tuition Waiver or Tuition Free, scholarships, TA, RA, fellowships, and merit-based rewards.
2. 大学里的学生一般都要支付哪些费用?他们的经济状况和经济来源如何?政府对学生有什么补贴?
回答:
expenses: tuition fees, living expenses (transportation, accomodation, cloths, meals,etc) economic sources: part-time jobs, scholarships or fellowships or TA or RA, family support, internships, loans. government support: Chinese government offer scholarships or grants, student loans and tuition waiver to poor students.
3. 政府资助大学的目的是什么?这些目的是否可以通过其他途径得到?
回答:
aim: offer equal education opportunities to students with different background, maintain social harmony and improve overall intellect of the whole nation.
alternative ways: social donations, work-study program, internship opportunities
4. 了解并计算一下,大学的运营费用是怎样的,如果支持一个有一万名在校生的大学,政府需要投入多少资金?
回答:
Operating cost: ten thousand students, each of whom will spend about 5000 yuan for tuition fee and 10,000 yuan for living, thus 150 million yuan for students, except for equipments, research support and so on. Prohibitive for government to pay all.
5. 政府付费之后(经济问题被解决之后)可能出现哪些正面或负面结果?
回答:
positive: 1.equal opportunities for college education, 2. more civilized residents to improve social intellect, as well as harmony; negative: 1.limited resouces too focus on tuition waiving, other support such as research grants, will probably be cut down; 2. waste of money, cannot take advantage of social wealth; 3. idle?