Blog Post Week 4
The increase in college tuition is happening in Taiwan as well. Taiwanese students and families from middle class are complaining about it but no one has raised a protest like Occupy movements yet. Our people blame the inflation of everything on the microeconomy and the government. Taiwanese are too tolerant to stand out and protest. Hence the Occupy movement sounds inspiring to me.
Speaking of tuition, Taiwan is having a hard time as well: not only the tuition of higher education institutions but also the number of students who go to universities and graduate school is increasing. Taiwanese new-grad students are encountering a low-pay job market. Therefore, after failing in finding a job with appropriate compensation, many students go back to school to get a bachelor degree, master degree or even a doctor degree. This phenomenon is wasting the education resource and resulting the students' family huge financial burden. I've just talked a coupe elder friends and they said this is also what happening in the U.S. now.
How does our Minister of Education respond to our students' complaints? He said he'd reform the education system to let the students more competitive for the job market, and hence reducing the chance that the students have to go back for endless school. As students can contribute to their community right after they graduate from college, the issue of middle-class families' burden would decrease. I think this is what the U.S should do to their college students as well. The Middle Class access plan is just a temporary solution, I believe. The U.S. government is in a deficit right now and you are asking more financial aids to students? How can the government continue in giving away to the student financial aids and not keeping in truck how their students are performing in college and how much they could contribute back to the society? I think the U.S. government is not solving the basic solution: resource allocation.
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