Question 1

People attend college of university for many different reasons (for example, new experiences, career preparation, increased knowledge). Why do you think people attend college or university? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Answer

The percentage of the people attending college or university has been increasing. Various reasons bring out with the increase of attending. Personally, I think that the new reasons are based on the changes of our social surroundings. Therefore, I would like to raise and explain the reasons from the point of new changes.

The primary reason is that workers return to college or university to broaden their knowledge. They try to get a degree such as Master’s or PhDs. Or they just take a few courses to meet their pursuit of study. In these days, many universities offer courses in order for such kind of workers to take part in. At a glance, they look experts in the business and people think they do not have to go to school. That is because they worked for many years before attending college. However, they think their business skill is not complete. They declare that they go to school again to combine their knowledge and to add new knowledge (skills, experience).

The second reason is that people try to get new skills to meet social demands. Many companies want very skillful people when they employ. In the past, companies educated employees after they entered it. It was worthy as long as employees never quitted the job. However, the long-lasting recession makes it impossible.

Companies can not afford to pay money for the education of employees. Therefore, many workers have to study by themselves to develop their skills. To seek the new education, they attend college or university.

In the end, colleges and universities themselves change to offer new specific fields. They are no longer research facilities in this meaning. Studens can get their favorite job relating to their specific field. I will illustrate law schools as an example. Law schools will be founded next year. Of course, people go there to be a lawyer. Yet, they do not have to enroll a law school if they can pass the law examination. People can choose one of the ways, going to a law school or passing the test. When they choose a law school, they attend a college. Besides law schools, colleges or universities offer various courses about specific fields for students.

In sum, people change their reasons to attend colleges or universities along the social environment change. I believe there are many changes such as worker's mind, market recession and university itself. In the future, more and more changes will occur if our surroundings change again.