High Tuition and High Expectations: The Consumerist Outlook
Tuition increases in recent years have caused society to develop a consumerist outlook on education and has introduced cost-benefit factors which leads students to question whether they are getting the total value of education for what they invest. The real question focuses on expectations: how their expectations shift when they pay more, what exactly those expectations may be, and how these expectations effect student success and satisfaction as well as the satisfaction of teaching staff. Through studies showing the corresponding rates of students success and satisfaction as tuition rates are increasing we can attempt to solve the very complex debate over whether tuition can have any effect on how students learn, where they choose …show more content…
Another aspect in solving this dilemma involves looking into the trend of students working to afford post-secondary education. This can also have effects not on what they expect but how successful they are and how teachers/lecturers can perform their duties. Understanding how these financial difficulties can backfire on student success is very important in understanding whether it is worth it to attend post-secondary schooling in recent years. That very question is asked in O’Leary’s article “New fees regime is riddle with uncertainty” and it seems that many institutions are trying to lead ‘consumers’ of education to believe that by raising costs they are doing students a favour in regards to loans. Getting the perspectives of actual university lecturers can be very helpful in showing what modern day students expect and the negative effects these somewhat high expectations may have, as seen in Rolfe’s article “Students’ Demands and Expectations in an Age of Reduced Financial Support:
Tuition increases in recent years have caused society to develop a consumerist outlook on education and has introduced cost-benefit factors which leads students to question whether they are getting the total value of education for what they invest. The real question focuses on expectations: how their expectations shift when they pay more, what exactly those expectations may be, and how these expectations effect student success and satisfaction as well as the satisfaction of teaching staff. Through studies showing the corresponding rates of students success and satisfaction as tuition rates are increasing we can attempt to solve the very complex debate over whether tuition can have any effect on how students learn, where they choose …show more content…
Another aspect in solving this dilemma involves looking into the trend of students working to afford post-secondary education. This can also have effects not on what they expect but how successful they are and how teachers/lecturers can perform their duties. Understanding how these financial difficulties can backfire on student success is very important in understanding whether it is worth it to attend post-secondary schooling in recent years. That very question is asked in O’Leary’s article “New fees regime is riddle with uncertainty” and it seems that many institutions are trying to lead ‘consumers’ of education to believe that by raising costs they are doing students a favour in regards to loans. Getting the perspectives of actual university lecturers can be very helpful in showing what modern day students expect and the negative effects these somewhat high expectations may have, as seen in Rolfe’s article “Students’ Demands and Expectations in an Age of Reduced Financial Support: