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Access To Higher Education

Higher education aims to train students' minds to think, not just learn facts, so they can help solve problems in their nation and world. It is offered at universities and colleges to earn degrees. Access to higher education can be improved by increasing infrastructure at institutions of higher learning, introducing open, distance, and online learning options, setting affordable tuition prices along with loan schemes, having fair student selection based on merit, and better communication between universities and potential students. Adding infrastructure like classrooms and labs allows more students to be accepted, reducing the number unable to attend due to lack of space. Universities should also establish distance/online programs to serve more students. Finally, setting reasonable prices and loans, especially for disadvantaged students,

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Access To Higher Education

Higher education aims to train students' minds to think, not just learn facts, so they can help solve problems in their nation and world. It is offered at universities and colleges to earn degrees. Access to higher education can be improved by increasing infrastructure at institutions of higher learning, introducing open, distance, and online learning options, setting affordable tuition prices along with loan schemes, having fair student selection based on merit, and better communication between universities and potential students. Adding infrastructure like classrooms and labs allows more students to be accepted, reducing the number unable to attend due to lack of space. Universities should also establish distance/online programs to serve more students. Finally, setting reasonable prices and loans, especially for disadvantaged students,

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Higher Education

“The value of college education is not the learning of many facts, but training of the mind to
think”. Higher education breeds individuals who are supposed to solve problems affecting the
nation and the world as a whole. Higher education is the education offered at the university or
college to obtain a degree. Access to Higher education may be improved by increasing the
infrastructure of institutions of higher learning, introduction of open, distance and online
learning by universities, setting up affordable fee prices together with loan schemes at
universities, fair selection of students to undertake higher education based on merit and
increased communication between institutions of higher learning with aspiring students in
primary and secondary schools.

Institutions of higher education require additional number of infrastructure to accommodate


more students in the various schools. Infrastructures may include classrooms, boarding
residences, and laboratories, if these structures are inadequate universities are forced to
accommodate more students and even fail to select potential and worthy of higher education.
If infrastructures are added more students are accommodate reducing the number of stay at
home students who cannot enter into the university just because they is no space for them at
the university. Infrastructures can be added with the help of government funding, foreign
donor aid and even with university profits. Furthermore, no student must fail to go to school
because there is no adequate space for them to be accommodated or long distances from
which increase costs due to transport. Higher education institutes should comes up with new
ways of learning such open, distance or online learning this will help cater for some of the
remaining students just sitting in homes. The students who just stay at home are usually a
burden to their families and the nation. Increased higher institutes’ infrastructures and
introduction of new innovative ways of learning helps improve pressure on university
resources and reduce student costs respectively.

Access to higher leaning institutes may be enhanced if universities where to set up fair
affordable fee prices and loan schemes especially in regard with highly marginalized poor
students. High fee prices should be no excuse for ones failure of failing to go to school, so if
fee prices are set fairly together with loan schemes most students in secondary may work
hard rather than drop-out as they may feel they have a chance to enter the corridors of the
university. And provision of loans should not also be a reason of increasing fee prices by
universities as these will lead to increased number of student who need the loans and this will
lead to more students scrambling for the little amount of loans as some student who were able
to pay the smaller amount of fees are now not able and are in the marginalized poor students
group. Affordable fee prices and loan schemes may not only improve access to higher
education of poor students but may also help their families focus on in improving their lives
rather than focusing most of their money on the child’s education.

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