Sample essay for ielts pot

Topic: Some people say that universities should be concerned with educating
people so that they will have wide general knowledge and be able to consider
important matters from an informed viewpoint. other people say that university
should simply train students to do the jobs required by society, and not
concern themselves with broader issues. What do you think?
BÀI LÀM 1
No one can deny the fact that studying in a university with educating people provides
lots of advantages such as having wide general knowledge and being able to consider
individual matters from general view to every single detail. However as for me, I still
believe the view that university should simply train students to do the jobs required by
society, and also not educate them any broader issues. There is a number of reasons
why I support this view of point.
Firstly, once students come to university, they have already been aware of studying
independently. Thus, they will have to be in charge with gaining broader issues
themselves, not the university’s responsibility to teach them those. To illustrate this,
think of the difference between the function of a student in high school and student in
university. Have we ever wondered why the educational system in high school required
students to study various subjects? I think this question is quite easy to answer since
the awareness of students to be independent in studying is directed toward by education
system in schools. Seemingly, students are expected to study not only important
matters but also the broader one. Finally, the achievement given guarantees the
demand of social life in which independence seems to be very necessary in every single
kind of job students will do in the future.
Moreover there is an old quote says that: “Working one job professionally is better than
working nine jobs amateurishly”. I think this quote is acceptable to be a good reason for
this issue. To illustrate this, think of the living in the present of economic context. We
can see that there will be no good job with good salary for a person who can do
everything in a fixed limitation which is just not enough for being considered to have a
promotion. Therefore, university should train students professionally and skillfully to do
the job required by society which will allow students not only to earn more money but
also have a stable job with a stable position in society.

Of course, studying in a university with educating people also has their own reasons to
be the good choice. However, there is nothing to confuse the advantages of training
students to do the jobs required by society in university. That will make students be
more independent and more successful in the future.
BÀI LÀM 2
Every education system around the world has a same question: what the chief function
of tertiary level education is. There are two sides of this argument, on the one hand,
some people say that university should educate student to have a wide general
knowledge that he would be confident to face with all issues in his life, in other words,
student would be a perfect person after graduated. Others say that university should
simply train student to do the job required by society as a vocational school does. To
evaluate that debate, this brief essay will discuss about the limit of education in
university.
Firstly, university must differ from the 12 years in basic education that teach everything,
from (without the) mathematic to literature, from how to read a geographical chart to
how to draw a map. What should be taught in university need to be more focused on
their major which student chose and necessarily relevant skills. Asking for a wide
general knowledge is impossible yet student after graduated could be a perfect person in
all aspects. A student who chooses marketing as his main major should be taught not
only business subjects but also some subjects from faculty of Arts and Humanities like
psychology, ethics as well. Such subjects make the student more confident and better,
he would not only do marketing intently for selling his products but also consider
whether if his campaigns right or wrong in social human values.
Education is not the responsibility of university and school, it needs the participation of
society, family and student himself. University can not teach him all the basic skills like
finance management, time organization, history of western civilization, etc in a limit
time, regularly 4 years. However, if university just simply trains student to do the job
required by society as a vocational school does, problems will occur. There will be
number of graduates that are very good at their professions but lack of generic skills like
verbal and written communication of complex ideas, social behaviour, ethical viewpoint,

etc. People who are offered to study in university after a process of selecting basically
are potential. What they should be taught in university are all issues could make them
become adults who are both talented and virtuous as well as have a specialist skill.
In conclusion, the answer of question ‘what the chief function of tertiary level education
is’ might depend on the education policies of the government of each country. There is
much to learn in life and a few years spending in university can never enough. If
someone really wants to improve himself, he could continue throughout his life.