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The charts below show the results of a survey of adult education. The first chart shows the reasons why adults decide to study. The pie chart shows how people think the costs of adult education should be shared.

Write a report for a university lecturer, describing the information shown below.

The given bar graph illustrates the reasons why adults determine to study, while the pie graph illustrates the way in which the community consider the expenses of adult education should be shared. Overall, it is seen that the most common reason for why adults decide to study is interest in subject and people think that cost of the courses should mostly be shared by individuals.

To begin with, the most common reason for why people decide to study is interest in subject. The second common reason for adults to get education is to gain qualifications, which is just below two-fifths. Moreover, 22 percent of people decide to follow further study because they consider it is helpful for their current jobs. The aims of improving the prospects of promotion and enjoy learning/studying have both the same proportions with 20%. In addition, the rates of people who wish to change their jobs and who are willing to meet people have the percentage of 12% and 9%, respectively.

At the first glance at the pie chart, it is clearly seen that most of the people consider that 40 percent of education expenses should be covered by individuals and 35 percent by the employers. They also think that the taxpayers should be responsible for a quarter of the cost of each course.