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University: a public or private? Call

The newspaper El Pais today published on its online edition an article that reflects on the debate that is beginning in Europe from the UK's decision to raise rates paid for enrollment in the English universities, a comparative analysis in the rest of Europe, noting that there is a variety of situations ranging from completely free, through selective or mixed models as English has decided to charge a higher rate for repeaters.

Essentially the debate focuses on whether the benefits of a university student who has an individual character and staff who obtained a university degree, or conversely, provides public benefits for society.

In analyzing this issue is inevitable to refer to the contributions of Howard Bowen respect to public benefits and private, individual and social if you will, arising from the transit of a person by the university, developing an array of benefits that a party raises the existence of public and private benefits, while the other identifies the generation of economic and social benefits provided by higher education. Even recently through a discourse analysis we reviewed the strategic plans of some universities to identify the type of benefits trying to reach higher education institutions.

However, intermediate positions have always existed to consider higher education as well mixed or semi public, in terms of personal and social benefits it provides, and also a merit good, ie those in which is difficult to assess their benefits in the long run, improve the distribution of wealth and where exclusion is not desirable in terms of consumption.

Thus arises this whole debate references to the systems of financing of higher education and scholarship and student support, especially regarding the role they must meet the state funding of universities and how much you payable by students for college.

In my personal opinion, public universities should be funded accordingly by the State, where students pay only a minimum of administrative fees but not the cost of borrowing each curriculum. Once graduated and inserted into the working world, graduates and professionals must begin to pay out of earnings received funding in their student years, adjusted for CPI values.

An important qualification that this mechanism would only be applicable for any credits or courses completed at the first opportunity, the repeaters must pay the costs incrementally if they should take a course two or more times, so apply the model in Spain I think in that sense successful.

Another issue is to analyze why students repeat, especially when it is due largely to the work which may academics do, for which they should also consider measures for teachers with high failure rates in their courses, which in my personal opinion is a clear indicator of a bad job on their part.