While I understand it's a choice for parents to cover their child's university tuition...I disagree. Child should pay for part of their education/accommodation living away from home.

To answer Chatty's question:

There's no guarantee that a college/university education will eventually help a child get a better-paying job. But if a child completes the education and graduates, for certain it can help the child learn about how to focus, self-discipline and perseverance which are good life skills.

Plus skills how to assess a range of information sources to learn how to question sources of information that clearly are wrong/lack evidence. The more complex information, the more the reader is required to acquire analytical skills or different types of skills especially when numbers/statistics and financial figures are thrown at a person.

Particularily for women, it is to their long term financial advantage to take some useful courses part-time after high school at some point in their life.

I work in a large govn't organization where wrongly or rightly people have their electronic signature indicate their degrees and job title. There is a reason for this: So that sometimes other employees understand a person's areas of expertise.

There is no question to have the personal choice for job mobility/choices, is to have a few choice courses beyond high school, underneath your belt in many larger organizations.