How other governments afford free college

Chile:
Most of the higher education in Chile is provided by private institutions and forced
nationalization is extremely prohibited in the Chilean constitution. (Free Tuition).
This makes it difficult for the Chilean government to implement such programs because it
requires the colleges to opt into the program, however they will not opt into it unless they can
make sufficient profits from it. Not only that, but the tax hikes that the government has
implemented onto the corporate companies have not returned as much income as they had
expected them to and will make funding a free college tuition difficult to accomplish. They have
promised free tuition by 2016, but how they are going to implement it has not been entirely
explained yet. As of right now, free tuition is only available to the students from the poorest
three quartiles of the economic bracket (Free Tuition). There are also whisperings that people
that will receive free tuition will not be able to receive student aid such as scholarships or grants.

Brazil:
The free tuition colleges known as federal colleges in Brazil are extremely prestigious, more so
than the private colleges (Brazil). However, the people that the colleges claim to help are being
helped the absolutely minimum, and many of the people attending these colleges are middleclass and upper-class students that were able to afford going to a private high-school and pass the
arduous exams that are required to be taken to get into these federally free colleges. This does
not help economic equality become more equal within the country and it actually creates a
greater gap between the poorest and riches individuals within the college because the people that

are within the economic upper classes of society are saving even more money. While those that
needed the higher education could not enter the free education institutions that were supposed to
be made for them.

Germany:
Has the second largest income tax of all OECDs 34 countries (There Is No Such), this is how
they afford their free educational system. Obviously Germany can have a free educational
system because their society has been BASED on social policies such as this and they can afford
these social policies because of their high tax rates. Not only that, but before 2006 college was
already tuition free already and even when tuition fees were implemented they were very little
only $600 per student (How Does Germany).

Germany also has a lower percentage of students

that go on to college than the United States. This reduces the cost of providing a federally free
college education.

Finland:
Finland has instituted a policy called one-place-per-student where the student can only have one
study spot in a degree program included in joint applications leading to a higher education
degree during any one academic term (How do Adults). Many of the programs for college are
not designed for part-time studying so you cannot further your education once you have obtained
your degree. Not only that, but because it has become so easy to get a college degree in Finland
people are getting degrees not because they think it will land them a job but because it seemed
like it would be a fun or interesting field. This produces a group of individuals that add no value

to the job market and is attributed to the excessive rise in unemployment for individuals with
college degrees.
France:
France has a 66% income tax, instead of asking how france can afford higher education, we
should be asking how cant they afford to pay for free higher education?

Norway:
Many foreign students take advantage of Norways free college education system because they
allow that in Norway. This produces an enormous cost on the Norwegians free welfare system.
Not only has free education become abused by foreigners, the quality of the schooling has also
been decreased, a quote from a citizen of Norway said as a parent I am being told by
barnehagen staff not to advance my child too much in reading and writing (Lilu is four and
learning to spell) because she will get bored in school and then wont want to participate.(The
Norwegian Education). With a lower quality of education being taught in Norway, it begs the
question of why have a free educational system if it does not push for the students to become
more educated? Another problem with the free higher-education is that it has not greatly affected
those that need it the most. Many young adults with families that have not attended college
before will not attend college either, in fact only 14% of young adults go to college whose
parents had previously never gone to college and about 58% of young adults with parents that
went to college do go and receive a higher education.

Slovenia:
Who gives a shit?

Sweden:
Im tired of this, Im going to bed and Im not spending more than three hours on this damn
thing. Just google the shit, thats what I did.

Bibliography
Free Tuition: A Rocky Rollout in Chile by Alex Rusher, insidehighered.com, July 14, 2015

Brazil Has Tuition-Free College But it comes with a catch by Abby Jackson,
businessinsider.com, June 25, 2015

How Does Germany Afford Free Tuition For All Of Its Citizens? by Attn Staff, attn.com, March
27 2015

There Is No Such Thing As A Free College Education by Christopher Denhart, forbes.com,

October 3 2014

How Do Adults in Finland Pay for Higher Education? By Hanna-Riikka Myllymki,

evolllution.com,

The Norwegian Education Crisis by L-Jay, mylittlenorway.com, April 19, 2012