There’s no cow more sacred in Argentina than free access to higher education; free both in the sense that anyone who finishes secondary school can study what they like and that you don’t have to pay any fees. Anyone suggesting that there might be anything wrong with this system risks being unfavourably compared with Jorge Rafael Videla.
Well, in ireland we’ve had free, in the sense of no fees, higher edication for the last few years. However, now that the economy isn’t cracking along so nicely it is being suggested that subisidising the education of the children of millionaires might not be a great idea. As James McInerny correctly says,
It is morally WRONG for the children of millionaires to have access to college [university] for what they would consider to be a pittance, when the children of lower-paid workers simply cannot go. The current policy is bad for the lower-paid, bad for the universities and bad for our society.
He’s dead right and exactly the same is true of Argentina. Read the rest of his excellent post here
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