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IELTS/Task 2

' Some people think that all university students should study whatever they like ' issue


Topic :

Some people think that all university students should study whatever they like. Others believe that they should only be allowed to study subjects that will be useful in the future, such as those related to science and technology. Discuss both these vies and give your own opinion.

 

Answer :

 

It is a common belief that the university should be a place where students learn subjects related to helpful skills like science and technology. However, there is a more persuasive opinion that students have to learn what they really like from universities because it will assist the overall development of society.

 

On the one hand, there is an argument that universities should teach only futuristic subjects such as science and technology, which can immensely provide industrial leap to each country. This is because those fields are highly regarded with the technological power of each country. Then the investment of universities will lead each country to become competitive countries in the future. For example, it is a well-known fact that Korea has grown really fast for the last half-century due to the development of information technology, which allowed Korea to get out of the ‘underdeveloped country’ from OECD in this year. As a result, it seems plausible that focusing on these fields by universities will contribute to strengthening the power of each country.

 

Nevertheless, it seems more persuasive that universities should dispense students diverse kinds of subjects hoped to study by them. This education system would offer opportunities for each society to be developed overall due to the improvement of different sectors of work. Individually selected subjects by students in universities would bear talented people in various workplaces. For instance, France has kept its college system for a long time, which has organized each university or college own prestigious to have own name value for different scholarly fields. This policy is appraised as a boosting method to breed outstanding people in a variety of fields in society.

 

To sum up, although countries can enhance their industrial field through allowing universities to teach students about subjects related to technological fields, it is undeniable that it is more important for each university to offer what students really want. This is because it makes balanced industrial improvement for each country.