It is neither possible nor useful to provide university places for a high proportion of young people. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

It’s said that providing university educational services on large scale for young students bring about no practical values in society, and also, it’s rather unfeasible to carry out this policy. Personally I disagree with these ideas and will outline my reasons in the essay below.

Firstly, having a university degree no longer has a vital role to the future of young people even in this knowledge-based society. For example, in many countries, especially in German, vocational training has gained more popularity because it enhances employment opportunities as well as job security after graduating. Besides, if so many people are admitted to universities, it would lead to the imbalances in workforce as without graduates want to opt for labour work such as working in the factories.

Secondly, I think that it is impossible to provide almost all young people with access to tertiary education. The more people entrance to higher universities, the greater the pressure on educational investment cost for facilities on the governments, not to mention short-staffed issue in most departments. Those result in the fact that teaching quality can go down because students have to accept the lack of their own researching space and the cram for quality in a lecture. Moreover, the entrance mark of most of the universities must be lower in order to respond to the educational level of the good number of students as the standard of learning at higher education would be unstable.

In conclusion, I strongly oppose the idea of dispensing university education to a high proportion of young people owing to the arguments presented above.