(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.
Tutor
Definition:
(n.) One who guards, protects, watches over, or has the care of, some person or thing.
(n.) A treasurer; a keeper.
(n.) One who has the charge of a child or pupil and his estate; a guardian.
(n.) A private or public teacher.
(n.) An officer or member of some hall, who instructs students, and is responsible for their discipline.
(n.) An instructor of a lower rank than a professor.
(v. t.) To have the guardianship or care of; to teach; to instruct.
(v. t.) To play the tutor toward; to treat with authority or severity.
Example Sentences:
(1) That motivation is echoed by Nicola Saunders, 25, an Edinburgh University graduate who has just been called to the bar to practise as a barrister and is tutoring Moses, an ex-convict, in maths.
(2) "Show that you know what you are applying for and have looked at the course information published on the university's website," says Gwyn Chivers, admissions tutor at Anglia Ruskin.
(3) Data were collected during three conditions: baseline, modeling, and peer tutoring.
(4) The Broken King by Philip Womack Photograph: Troika Books The Sword in the Stone begins with Wart on a "quest" to find a tutor.
(5) One of Prime’s founder members, Linklaters, provides tutoring, mentoring, work experience, and careers events to 2,500 young people in Hackney each year through its Realising Aspirations programme , according to a company spokesperson.
(6) By contrast, there was a substantial and highly significant improvement of knowledge among women who were given the ECAC and who were also individually tutored; this difference in CK was accounted for by improvement in both PK and AK.
(7) He didn't go to university, but says he discovered the joy of learning for learning's sake when he was tutored on the Harry Potter sets.
(8) It consists of a clinical assessment made by a surgical tutor over a period of six weeks throughout a student's surgical term, a visual, clinically orientated written examination a "spotter-type" practical examination and a viva-voce examination.
(9) It is suggested that the student, his parents and tutor should be informed about his health impairments, the degree of disability and therapeutic possibilities.
(10) An alternative is to let currently enrolled students proctor and tutor each other.
(11) We conducted a large-scale field replication study of classwide peer tutoring applied to spelling instruction (Greenwood, Delquadri, & Hall, 1984).
(12) An anonymous fashion design student at the University of Kingston says: "Our tutors have always told us not to take unpaid internships and I think they're all quite passionate about that.
(13) "I looked up tutoring online and found out about an agency specialising in student tutors, Bright Young Things (BYT).
(14) And so while it’s particularly pernicious that some parents pay for months, sometimes years, of tutoring to get their child through an exam that they might well otherwise fail, I know it’s because they are desperate to secure for their child any extra benefit going in a country that is becoming ever more unequal.
(15) The recent big increase in learning opportunities for general practitioners, particularly in postgraduate medical centres, has been accompanied by increasing suspicion that educational activities may not be fulfilling the aims of continuing education, and that there is dissatisfaction with existing courses.This study took place in the north-western region, and 18 clinical tutors were interviewed using a structured interview schedule.Very few of the clinical tutors were aware of the existence of the book The Future General Practitioner-Learning and Teaching, and most activities consisted of lectures, lecturers usually being local and regional consultants, with occasional national authorities.
(16) In problem-based learning, process and content are inextricably linked, with the three cardinal elements being the students, the tutors, and the problems.
(17) Peer tutoring combined with praise led to a significant improvement in solving mathematics problems requiring regrouping, word recognition, and ability to locate specific text pages.
(18) Older adults were shown to be capable of producing gains by themselves that were comparable to those obtained following tutor-guided training in the nature of test-relevant cognitive skills.
(19) The first attempt to apply the problem-based learning approach to written material for use by an individual learner in the absence of a tutor led to a trial in Ghana, Kenya and Pakistan to compare a conventionally designed module with a problem-based learning module on the same topic for their respective acceptability, effectiveness and efficiency.
(20) But then came a challenge I couldn't turn down – busking outside Camden tube station with Billy Bragg , one of my musical and political heroes, who was happy to tutor and coax me through our favourite playlist.