Free University Education: Who Wins, Who Loses?

Abstract

A series of op-eds and press statements by prominent politicians and experts on the subject points to the various merits or drawbacks of the proposal for tuition-free university education, or its extension to all of higher education, as well as core public funding (aportes basales) for state universities and the new compact between the State and its universities, among other issues. In other words, in the eyes of whoever is offering the opinion, one proposal may be just as good as its opposite, or simply an extreme mistake. Continue reading...