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...years, while in Europe it can take almost a decade. Governments realize that universities need more funds - but also know they can't provide them from budgets already overburdened by shrinking tax revenues and rising costs for health care, unemployment benefits and pensions. So politicians are looking at tuition fees to increase university funding; students see the specter of creeping privatization that could, they argue, make higher education unaffordable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Price Education? | 12/7/2003 | See Source »

...proposing tuition fees, Europe is taking a page from the American textbook on how to fund universities. In the U.S., students have a range of options, from state schools that charge only about $3,000 per semester to high-profile universities like Stanford, Yale and Harvard, where a year can cost over $30,000. But many schools offer financial assistance, study grants or work-study programs, and most students end up taking out low-interest loans to pay part of the cost. England already has the highest public-university tuition costs in Europe - €1,600 per year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Price Education? | 12/7/2003 | See Source »

...number of years until the cap comes off and we'll have a system similar to what they have in the States." In France, the Institut d'études Politiques de Paris (IEP), one of the country's élite higher-learning institutions, announced in September that annual tuition at the school will rise from the current €1,050 up to €4,000 a year. Students from low-income families will pay less than those from more affluent ones. UNEF, the French National Students' Union, claims the increase at IEP is a sign of privatization. At present there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Price Education? | 12/7/2003 | See Source »

Vest noted that net tuition has grown modestly and the university met a $1.5 billion capital campaign goal two years early...

Author: By Risheng Xu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Facing Budget Crisis, MIT Slashes Costs | 12/2/2003 | See Source »

...Texas, helped three local schools add 60 spots to their nursing programs by lending its own nurses, on hospital pay, as instructors. Pasco Hernando Community College found that local hospitals were so desperate for nurses that they were willing not only to lend clinical instructors but also to pay tuition and expenses for students who would make a two-year commitment to work as nurses when they graduate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health Kick | 11/24/2003 | See Source »

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