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Unaffordable, inaccessible university systems

All over the world, university students are ratcheting up thousands of dollars/pounds/pesos worth of debts, completely unnecessarily. Lengthy university courses are set more for the convenience of the professors rather than the students and yet the students end up paying for them. Here in Chile, seven year courses are not uncommon and the debts that the students accumulate for their courses are real debts unlike in other countries. So if a student cannot afford to repay their student loans, it destroys their credit ratings and their ability to get mortgages, etc. There needs to be an urgent rethink in all countries around the globe. Courses for most subjects need to be slashed in half so that students can get out into the real world quicker with less debt and the ability to start earning.

And in Spanish:

A lo largo del mundo, los estudiantes universitarios están asumiendo y cargando con deudas de miles de dólares/libras/pesos, totalmente innecesarias. Largos cursos universitarios son hechos para conveniencia de los profesores más que de los estudiantes y sin embargo, los estudiantes terminan pagando por ellos. Aquí en Chile, carreras de hasta 7 años no son poco comunes y las deudas que acumulan los estudiantes por esos cursos son reales, a diferencia de otros países. Por lo que si un estudiante no puede pagar su préstamo estudiantil, se destruye su capacidad crediticia y por tanto su posibilidad de acceder a hipotecas, etc. Sus necesidades deben ser repensadas en todos los países a lo largo del mundo. Las carreras universitarias, en la mayoría de la areas, necesitan ser reducidas a la mitad para que los estudiantes puedan salir al mundo real más rápido, con menos deuda y con la capacidad de empezar ganando.

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