Problems of Higher Education

University is a major factor in our academic lives since 11^th century when first universities appeared in Europe. We build our career with the help of universities. However, there have been several problems concerning campus facilities throughout history. For instance, as new technologies are born in our lives, campuses need to catch up with them. One of the main problems of academic institutions is lack of facilities at campuses such as less equipped classrooms, inadequate library resources and weak internet access, which may result in low quality of knowledge in university level.

The first problem in many of our campuses is their classrooms. In many classrooms there is no projector to present the material being studied. Air conditioning is also poor. Thus students don’t have a fresh mind to grab the concepts of the topic. And more importantly, in many campuses there are no laboratory classrooms for specific fields such as physics, chemistry and computer science. Even though we have these laboratories in some campuses, most of their computers and other experimental equipments do not function well or obsolete. Yet these laboratories play a big role for students in doing their projects and researches.

Second major issue about the facilities at campuses is the lack of library resources. Book is a student’s food. They cannot live without books. Many campuses have libraries but not enough for students needs. A thorough library needs to provide not only books but also CDs, journals and other online materials. It is even better if the university has separate libraries for different majors. In addition to this, the library should also provide an inter-library loan facility. It means that if a book needed by a student does not exist in the university library, the university borrows the book from another library outside campus, be it another university’s library or a national library.

Beside classrooms and library resources, the internet access can also be considered as a contemporary issue at campuses. In our era, internet has become an important part of our daily lives. Our campuses should provide a reliable internet connection so that we can take advantage of it for both our studies and private businesses. However, the internet at campuses is quite slow and there are many limitations such as restriction for downloading files or restriction to the internet access at certain hours in a day.

Consequently, facilities at campuses need to be improved in order to meet the international standards and to make sure that students will have all of the opportunities to keep the quality of their knowledge high.

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