Originally posted by: SilentVixen
if college were free some people would be permanent students to keep from getting a job. overall a very bad idea
Not very likely, unless they have rich parents. You still have to eat and live somewhere with electricity, yeah?
Like Uppsala said, it's free here in Sweden, and you normally borrow funds to live on during the studies from the government (and receive some you don't have to pay back), provided you complete a certain amount of the courses you take every term.
Uppsala said you had to qualify to get in, but there of course some(quite alot) not very popular (because they suck in terms of quality, or because they are considered mindnumbingly boring by most) programs at many universities that nevermind your grades, as long as you've passed in the required ones. Hell, even if you are trying to get onto a program that required you to have quite high grades to enter, at a university somewhere, most programs still allow a certain amount of students in (like 40%) based on a test, a 'pre-university test', that you can do. All you have to do then is be somewhat intelligent, and good at most of the five or six subjects that test covers (reading comprehension, english, logic/maths, funky words, etc).
This produces a lot of people who go through educations with as much enthusiasm as a roadkill (like me
😛 ), but also, in my view, gives people a more fair chance to study at a university, if they feel like it. I am
far too lazy to even begin thinking how fun it must be to study at the same time as you are working to both pay for your living, AND the university fees.
