It is said that the future of a nation depends upon its children and their education. Knowing this truth, every country makes great efforts to improve education and prepare its young people for the difficult test of life. A solid education, from school to college and then to university needs a good infrastructure, good teachers and good financing and each govern takes the responsibility for education in its own way, based on the overall economic development. That explains why children from different countries have different levels of education and why a ranking system was created for all types of schools, helping parents to choose the most suitable schools for their children’s education.
Free education is not a realistic concept today and economic crisis makes it harder to attend, but fewer things in life are free so everyone must pay more for educating their children. Education taxes make the difference and not always the most gifted children can afford a high level of education, thus forbidding them the access to well paid jobs. The poor children have even less chances to fulfil a proper education and embrace lower qualifications and studying abroad for them is just a dream. Some countries that are less developed are not in a position to finance good education and the children don’t stand a chance in the hard competition for better jobs. Today’s education is becoming more and more like a business and schools of all grades are imposing education taxes to build a solid infrastructure and pay for the best teachers in order to get higher rankings and provide high levels of education to the children.
Most of the highly skilled children with financial backup are choosing to study abroad and fulfil their education in the most famous schools. When making plans for studying abroad, the school tradition and the good rank are not to be forgotten. Tradition is so important that sometimes just the name of a school triggers interest amongst the prospective students. Say Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Yale or MIT and you already have the picture. Studying abroad is the privilege of the rich people because good education comes with great expenses and in addition to the school taxes are travelling expenses, accommodation, camp, food, clothing and entertainment too. That’s why studying abroad is competing more and more with remote education made possible by the Internet. And yet another good point of the web is spreading high quality education all around the world with affordable expenses for almost everyone.
