Pay more learn more?

The recent idea floated by Arjun Singh about Higher Fee Structure for Higher Education has raised many an ante. Here is a quote from the papers:-

NEW DELHI: If parents can pay higher school fees for their children, they may as well pay higher fees in colleges and universities too. The government is working out a plan to this effect.

The Human Resource Development Ministry and University Grants Commission (UGC) are discussing the issue with vice-chancellors and state education secretaries at a two-day conference on higher education currently on in the Capital.While stressing that government's funding on education would increase substantially, the Planning Commission feels the contribution from students must also go up.

This big "IF" only pertains to rich people, not the entire nation, but if the fees are hiked for higher education, there will be less takers, and there will be aspiring students committing suicide because they cannot get what they want. This sectarian ideology of Arjun Singh is a disaster, he has always been sectarian, he has been trying to do a balancing act, as if he was the judge of the country's future. The younger generation will simply dislike this idea because it will prevent many from getting into Higher Education.

Institutions like BITS,IITs,IIMs are already charging a heavy amount for higher education, and it is creating a buffered zone amongst the educated.There are the "rich-educated" and the "poor-educated" classes today.Definitely they do not see eye to eye and India's future is at stake here. Arjun Singh maybe targetting the "rich-educated" but the education fees going high is going to affect only the "poor-educated" adversely because it is they who may not be able to pay high amounts for higher education, and thus suffer a full stop in their academic career.

Would love to hear what many of you out there think about this.