Additional tuition fees for international students

Canada is well known by high quality education in the world. Every year, hundreds and thousands international students come to Canada for studying in colleges or universities. However, the international students’ tuition fees are much higher than locals’. This situation is fair or not, there are different opinions.

Some people disagrees this policy. They think the international students do not obtain special education than local students. There are same classrooms, same teachers and same equipments. Everything is same, except tuition fees, so additional tuition fees are unfair for international students. Moreover, high tuition fees increased study pressure of international students. Most of they need do part time jobs for affording their tuition fees. Therefore, they may not have enough time to study as Canadian students. Additional, different tuition fees let international students to feel that they are special group in the campus. So they need not only bear higher study pressure, but also undergo mental stress and loneliness which local’s students could not feel.

But other people think it is faired to pay additional tuition fees by international students. In Canada, for public colleges and universities, the most of costing of day-to-day running and development are supported by government funds. So local’s teenagers should enjoy the benefits as lower tuition fee, because their parents have made lots of contributions to Canada, and have paid tax many years. Additional, most of international students will leave Canada and go back to their mother country after they graduated. They are not going to contribute to Canada. So some people do not think that international students should get the same benefits as Canadian students. At last but not least, the major responsibility of national educational system is training and improving citizens’ level of education. In this respect, it is fair and reasonable that colleges or universities provide more and cheaper opportunities of obtaining high quality education for local’s students.

To sum up, although additional tuition fees may burden on a part of international students, it is fair for most of students and citizens. If there will be more scholarships for international students, which provide by companies, in colleges and universities, we think this unequal situation will be decreased effectively.