The
decline in government funding of higher education, the economic downturn, the
long decades of unforgivable neglect, along with rapidly rising costs of the
different services and products that universities have to provide, have led to
steady increases in student and parents outlays over the last two or three decades.
There are no indications that costs will go down, neither are there signals
that one day university education will be free – as called for by many segments
of the society.
