Word: tuitions
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This paradox is always present in any survey of the British university system. Superficially, it seems more elitist and restrictive than the American--but is it, in fact, when the vast majority of those who get to college not only have all their tuition fees paid by the government, but a considerable proportion of their living expenses as well? The introduction of government aid since 1945 has grafted a meritocracy onto a system of tradition designed to make "gentlemen." The student lounging in the Junior Common Room of one of the Oxford colleges (often medieval in origin), taking afternoon...
President Carter's voluntary wage and price guidelines, outlined last week, may limit Harvard to a $400 tuition increase for the 1979-80 school year. But officials around the University yesterday expressed uncertainty about exactly what effects the federal program might have on Harvard...
Under Carter's proposals, Harvard's tuition figure, taken by itself, would be limited to an 8 1/4 per cent increase in 1979-80--equal to .5 per cent less than the average increase over the last two years. In 1977, tuition rose 8 1/2 per cent, from $4100 to $4450. Last year it rose 9 per cent, from...
Kennedy, in his capacity as chairman of the Senate subcommittee on education, arts, and humanities, took testimony at Boston University on the Tuition Advance Fund (TAF) bill, which he is co-sponsoring. The plan calls for federal student loans up to $15,000 for undergraduate education; after graduation, participants would repay 150 per cent of the loan through a salary withholding plan at an annual rate of 2 per cent through their working careers...
Available only to sophomores, juniors and seniors, the TAF would create a "revolving education fund" much like Social Security provides a revolving retirement fund. The TAF plan, first formulated by John Silber, president of Boston University, would supplement existing government loans and replace the controversial tuition tax credit plan which died on the Senate floor earlier this month...