The research of Nate Johnson (2016) provides a policy view on the cost of tuition. In this Johnson exams percent of tuition is covered by taxes on average in the United States, the effect that state school has on taxpayers support and how it has affected the current debates in policy over higher education cost. Other discussions …show more content…
The inclusions of the research will be interviews with a university student in the United States and the United Kingdom, case studies, a survey and an evaluation of documents. All of these combined will compose the research I have conducted in order to answer the research question of ‘How does the tuition cost of higher education affect students and government? The methods are being mixed for it is a compilation of data analysis and a survey I made that was distributed; the data is quantitated and the surveys are qualitative. These compiled together will help to provide a clearer answer the question, and determine if my hypothesis is accurate or …show more content…
Evaluation of Collected Data
I. Higher Education Policies
The cost of higher education tuition is a debated topic. It is one that sways in importance depending on who is in power, the democrats or republicans. However, the United States in not alone in this matter. In most nations, like the United States and the United Kingdom, the liberals are for lowering tuition cost while republicans prefer to raise the cost (Bratberg, pg. 286, 2011). Higher education is strongly controlled by the government and whichever party in power. “Over the next decade, it has been estimated that the federal government will make a profit of over $110 billion on student loan programs (Bernie Sanders, 2016).”
The U.K. has a history of changing tuition policies, especially within the last two decades. It is not simply a slow increase of tuition cost like in the USA. The USA in the past slowly raised prices for higher education. However, since the end of the 1970’s prices have been on a steady incline, while grants are on the decline. As stated in the introduction statistics show that since the 1970’s the US Government has decreased the amount of grants given by about 40%. Also, work study has decreased by about 25%. Since the 1970’s the rate of poverty (especially among children) has increased (Avery and Hoxby, 2014) Meanwhile, prices have increased by 300% including inflation (CollegeBoard, 2016). This is not a small change in tuition. Not only have grants have been cut and tuition is on