Educationists are pushing for more creative means to make the cost of education progressively cheaper and to reduce the rampant student agitations in the country.Tertiary students on Wednesday embarked on a demonstration to protest what they claim are the unreasonable fees being charged by the university authorities.It is not the first time and will certainly not be the last if concrete steps are not taken to resolve the crisis, the educationists have opined.Kofi Bentil of the policy think tank IMANI, told Joy News government must suspend its subvention to the tertiary institutions and rather channel its resources to the direct benefit of individual students.Mr Bentil explained government must begin to find out how much it will cost in training individual students for the entire four years in tertiary institution.“Once we get that, we will figure out how we will fund that,” he stated.He said students always have a case for their demonstration because the cost of tertiary education is always skyrocketing with no clear indication of what the university authorities use their various sources of funds for.“For 54 years we have been funding the school and the idea is that the school will churn out students. The students are demonstrating and this has become a ritual and they have a case,” he noted.“…It may be better for Government to put its money to support students than to support schools so that if the schools have fees and the students get a scholarship from a certain scholarship fund, they will pay the fees, get the education and after the education pay back the students loan", he explained.He believes the total number of tertiary students in the country will not surpass two million for which reason the total cost of training each one of them should not be too expensive.A former Vice Chancellor of the University of Education Winneba Prof. Anamoah Mensah who did not entirely disagree with the arguments posited by Mr Bentil also underscored the need to reduce the burden imposed on parents in training their wards.“I believe that what we need to do is to ensure that government takes over completely the tuition [fee] - the academic aspect of it. Because what we are trying to do is to train people for the knowledge economy. You cannot train them when you are forcing them to come and invest their whole money when they don’t have money to invest,” he explained.He said proposed that government should increase the amount of subvention it provides in order to make the cost of training in the tertiary institutions a lot cheaper. Play the attached audio for excerpts of the interviews Story by Nathan Gadugah/Myjoyonline.com/Ghana