Sample Essays For toefl

 
115) The government has announced that it plans to build a new university. Some 
people think that your community would be a good place to locate the university. 
Compare the advantages and disadvantages of establishing a new university in your 
community. Use specific details in your discussion. 
 
The people in our community welcomed the announcement of the government's plan to 
build a university. In fact, majority proposed that our community is a good place to locate 
the university. I whole-heartedly support their proposal. 
Building a new university can offer a lot of opportunities to everybody. First, it will 
provide an excellent alternative to the existing university, which, unfortunately, cannot 
accommodate the growing numbers of students each year. Secondly, this will stop 
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monopoly of education resulting to stagnation of the quality of education by creating a 
healthy competition to other institution to maintain and improve their standards of 
education. 
Moreover, students can now have the options to choose which university they prefer and 
take courses, which they really like.
A new university also means more job opportunities especially for teachers, administrative 
staff and others who are in need of employment.
However, a new university can also create problems to the community, more universities 
in the community do not immediately mean better education. Sometimes, the quality of 
education suffers from quantity because school administrators tend to commercialize 
education to attract more students. The policies may become lax; the rules may bend to 
accommodate the whims of students in order to keep them. 
A new university would also lead to an increase of migration of people who would like to 
avail higher education. This can lead to increased pollution and even crimes. The once 
peaceful community may become noisy and chaotic because of the increased number of 
people with different personalities. 
In the end, all things in this world have advantages and disadvantages. In this case, even if 
building a new university can increase pollution, or even crimes, bring noise and possible 
chaos to the community, the benefits that it will give the people, especially the youth in 
providing them the means to finish their education and prepare them for their future life 
can outweigh all disadvantages.