Why post-secondary education should be free

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Annotated Bibliography

Amanjot Kaler

Sheridan College

Annotated Bibliography

Amanjot Kaler, Sheridan College

Free Post-Secondary Education. (2018, December). Retrieved November 16, 2020, from https://cfsontario.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Factsheet-FreeEducation.pdf

This article talks about free education in many countries worldwide; countries in Western Europe- Finland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Iceland all have free post-secondary education where no one pays for tuition. This article also talks about how free education can reduce financial barriers and help promote individuals to pursue post-secondary education after high school. This article also shows how post-secondary education can be achieved which will be through the existing tax system income. Only about 30% of people in Ontario have completely finished their post-secondary education. The high cost of education is preventing a lot of people to go and finish their post-secondary education. This article is very useful as all the information on this article actually refers to things that are happening in Ontario and not worldwide. All the information that is given in this article is information that was put together for statistics and results in Canada- specifically Ontario.

Author, N. (2020, November). College and University Should Be Free For All Canadians. Retrieved November, 2020, from https://www.publicboard.ca/school/beaton/Documents/Emmas%20Persuasive%20Essay.pdf

This article was actually written by someone who is potentially in school to raise their own opinion. The article talks about and states how essential free education is in terms of people not being in debt. The opening statement of the article shows that the most powerful weapon can be education which can also be used to change the world. In order to help change the world it is a possibility that a lot of good things that can happen in the world is prevented by not enough people having a good education to make it happen. The article talks about how expensive post-secondary education really is and how much students can go to debt after finally finishing their diploma/degree education. They have advised that maybe taxpayers can potentially help cover the cost of tuitions for students. This article helped explain the con side of how the cost of post-secondary education can be covered.

Kigotho, W. (2015, January 16). Higher education boosts job opportunities. Retrieved November 17, 2020, from https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20150116110024170

This article discusses that free post-secondary can help students that are low to middle class families get the education they need. A lot of times people who have potentially to get a good education get restricted by having to take on warehouse/general labour jobs for the sake of money and think that they can save up for an education. With the help of free post-secondary option students can work while getting their education as well. Free post-secondary can give individuals to finally get a job in the career they really wish to do instead of going to programs with smaller fees to get their education. This article is helpful because it shows how doing something as simple as free post-secondary can help promote better education for people who do wish to go to school but due to circumstances cannot.