Students should pay a greater proportion of their education costs because it benefits them personally?

On average, everyone disagrees with nonconsensus between 420 voters.

Reasons To Disagree

A more educated workforce will benefit society altogether, so it is not just in the student's best interests that they do study.

"perhaps they should go out and get real jobs and go thru the uni of life instead" i assume that 'they' refers to the poor. expensive education creates further inequality within our society. education should be for everone, not just the rich

Education is a public good.

i don't think that students should pay for anything because they gonna have to start paying of thier student loan when they leave school and if they have to pay for a greater porportion then they will be left wiht a big dept hole in their heart

a large part of education is in the public's good - like store of knowledge, informed people, and clusters of "social conscience". we just need more choice.

we already pay 5000 and up per year. Thats what people on the dole get paid to do nothing. If you want to curb costs then why not look towards the people who arent contributing at all?

No fees, i do think books and materials should be paid by student though.

No way!! when we finish studying, we start paying tax and our loan off!

Reasons To Agree

"A more educated workforce will benefit society altogether..." is a pretty wide sweeping statement. Of course they should pay for their education. If I want to start a business, which will benefit society (through paying tax) and me, I have to pay the costs. If National were the Government the student would be able to claim the interest on their loan as a business expense - what is wrong with that. Perhaps we have too many people going to University. Perhaps they should get out there and get real jobs and go through the University of Life instead.

I went to uni and i would pay more for it. Now that im on the other side and have a HUGE portion of my wages sucked away in tax i think that i would like to have paid more for it and then kept more of my wages later on. I think that it would cut a lot of time wasting no hopers who make a career out of bumming around campus!

If they have to pay for it they will, perhaps, actually study harder and opt for a useful qual - not some useless subject which no employer will ever want to pay for,

Students should pay for the education they need/want. If the student works or pays any other taxes, they should be substantially reduced for the very fact they're paying for their own education.

According to EVERY independent study ever done of education the public benefit of anything more than basic numeracy and literacy is ZERO! There will always be an incentive for people to get a decent education so that can get the jobs they want and all the benefits of such are captured privately by the person the business the schooling system and teachers etc. If you disagree then explain why so many graduates aren't getting jobs? Answer is we are subsidizing production of education and reaping the oversupply.