Review of Half Price Tuition Fee

. One of the biggest recent issues should be about university tuition fee. As the President's promise of cutting down tuition fee to half has not been kept, with the more and more social problems raised and a lot of sad cases of students broadcasted, resulting from the high tuition fee, students no longer seem to stand the current situation. They raise their voice by gathering and even protest to require goverment of putting the half tuition fee policy into practice. But would the half tuition policy be realistic? Or even if it took place, would it really work? And is it reasonable or right for students to get their demands by that kind of protest? When it comes to those questions, even though I understand them, I have to say "no."

. Though this country is democartic, it does not mean there is no social order. They carried protests too far. They were not accepted by neither goverment nor any university at all. Then should they keep protesting to accomplish their goals? No. It would be the same if they keep the same way. They should stop it and find the other possible ways instead. As long as the public opinion on a certain problem is formed, goverment can not easily ignore it no matter how difficult it is to deal with or how reluctant it is to fix it. Furthermore, this is what they promised to do and are well aware of! So what we should do is to find some point to make a compromise with goverment and university officers. Since all the different interests of goverment, university, and students are tangled on this matter, we have to solve it not by just insisting but by conversation.

. Let's take an example of USA. Universities in USA are also famous for the high tuition fee. But they have a variety of ways to give economic supports to students. They have much more different kinds of scholarship and subsidy at different levels than those in Korea. I believe we can partly take this example. When thinking about universities' current situation, they would not be glad to cut down the tuition fee suddenly because they have their own goals and objectives, and to do them, they need money. So if the half tuition fee policy took place, all the private universities would fall into great confusion. Then, it is the students who would be affected the most. University officers say if government can support for the empty space which would come from cutting down the tuition fee, they say they can put the policy into practice. However, of course the government says no because they also lack of money to spend on other countless problems. So the most possible solution is not cutting down the tuition fee, but making and improving the policies to support and give benefits for students, step by step, and one by one.