(n.) Superintending care over a young person; the particular watch and care of a tutor or guardian over his pupil or ward; guardianship.
(n.) Especially, the act, art, or business of teaching; instruction; as, children are sent to school for tuition; his tuition was thorough.
(n.) The money paid for instruction; the price or payment for instruction.
Example Sentences:
(1) Education is becoming unaffordable because of tuition fees and rent.
(2) A Wall Street Journal profile, published in 2000, says the Cherrys' interpreter introduced them to Deng, who was anxious to learn English, and Joyce Cherry offered her tuition.
(3) But it's been hard to convince employers that my dream is to become a storekeeper, or a sales person for a spare parts car company, after spending four years and €40,000 on tuition fees.
(4) May 2 1997 Labour is elected with a manifesto committed to leaving the door open for tuition fees: "the costs of student maintenance should be repaid by graduates on an income-related basis ..." July 23 1997 The Dearing report is published.
(5) Students in England, Wales and Northern Ireland currently pay up to £3,225 a year in tuition fees but many universities want a rise in the cap or even its removal.
(6) But within months, Blair had introduced tuition fees for university students, begun the process of privatisation in the NHS and later took part in the Iraq war.
(7) University tuition costs have soared, provoking violent protests.
(8) • A payment of £20,000 for tuition of the head of the Libyan investment authority.
(9) "In the next few months, students will have to face a proposed indexation of tuition fees to the cost of living, a measure which does not take into account the reality of students.
(10) Osborne also blew a £600m hole in Labour’s plans to fund its cut in tuition fees from £9,000 to £6,000, taking the money to fund his savings package.
(11) "Many young people decide not to go to university when they finish their A-levels, and after a few years in employment decide that they need extra skills or to retrain, and it is clear that the government's decision to raise tuition fees and cut teaching funding is impacting them particularly hard," Burns said.
(12) "Even the education budget has hardly increased – one area where we should be spending more, instead of absurd tuition fees.
(13) Hate the smoking ban, HS2, Brussels, travellers, burqas, regulation, tax, Boris, debt, windfarms, quangos, foreign aid, crime, Abu Qatada, Muslims, tuition fees, lazy people, asylum seekers, the hunting ban?
(14) Many privately admit they should never have signed the National Union of Students' pledge opposing tuition fees at the time of the election as they were actively encouraged to do by party headquarters.
(15) Education • Every primary-school child who needs it will get one-to-one tuition • Labour will pilot a scheme to give all primary-school children free school meals.
(16) Tuition fees put off the poorest students and make university more about your bank balance than your ability."
(17) Sarah Parkes, who went to Sherborne Girls school before graduating with a first in history from Bristol University and then completing a law conversion course, says the tuition made her more aware of the benefits of her own education.
(18) The Ucas chief executive, Mary Curnock Cook, said: "This in-depth analysis of the 2012 applications data shows that, although there has been a reduction in application rates where tuition fees have increased, there has not been a disproportionate effect on more disadvantaged groups.
(19) The pressure on applicants is intensified because around 2,000 students from the UK and the EC have also applied to the universities because tuition fees of £3,465 in Northern Ireland are cheaper than in Britain.
(20) When it comes to tuition fees, do not believe the voices who tell us that the average Briton thinks students are a pampered lot who should get with the government's plans and count themselves lucky.