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If the Army helped towards my tuition fees I would then give them four years of my life.
James Blunt

Meaning of "tuition fees" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF TUITION FEES

tuition fees  [tjʊˈɪʃən fiːz] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TUITION FEES

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Tuition fees is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TUITION FEES MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Tuition payments

Tuition payments, known primarily as tuition in American English and as tuition fees in British English, Canadian English, Australian English, New Zealand English and Indian English, refers to a fee charged for educational instruction during higher education. Tuition payments are charged by educational institutions in some countries to assist with funding of staff and faculty, course offerings, lab equipment, computer systems, libraries, facility upkeep and to provide a comfortable student learning experience. In most countries, especially in non-English-speaking countries, there are no or only nominal tuition fees for all forms of education, including university and other higher education.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TUITION FEES


Chinese
tʃaɪˈniːz
classes
ˈklæsiːz
dieses
ˈdaɪəsiːz
disease
dɪˈziːz
ease
iːz
expertise
ˌɛkspɜːˈtiːz
fease
fiːz
feaze
fiːz
feeze
fiːz
he´s
hiːz
Japanese
ˌdʒæpəˈniːz
keys
kiːz
mise
miːz
pheese
fiːz
please
pliːz
Portuguese
ˌpɔːtjʊˈɡiːz
series
ˈsɪəriːz
she´s
ʃiːz
species
ˈspiːʃiːz
telegraphese
ˌtɛlɪɡrɑːˈfiːz

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TUITION FEES

tugrik
tui
tui-na
tuile
Tuileries
tuille
tuillette
tuilyie
tuism
tuition
tuitional
tuitionary
tuk-tuk
Tukkie
tuktoo
tuktu
Tula
tuladi
tularaemia
tularaemic

WORDS THAT END LIKE TUITION FEES

bee´s knees
board of trustees
boarding fees
by degrees
course fees
dungarees
Great Pyrenees
Kirklees
lees
legal fees
Maccabees
Pyrenees
school fees
see the wood for the trees
Stockton-on-Tees
Surtees
Tees
the bee´s knees
the birds and the bees
university fees

Synonyms and antonyms of tuition fees in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «tuition fees» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TUITION FEES

Find out the translation of tuition fees to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of tuition fees from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tuition fees» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

学费
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

matrícula
570 millions of speakers

English

tuition fees
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ट्यूशन फीस
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

رُسُومُ التَّعْلِيم
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

плата за обучение
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

taxa de ensino
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বেতন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

frais d’inscription
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

yuran tuisyen
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Unterrichtsgebühr
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

授業料
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

수업료
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Biaya sekolah
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

học phí
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கல்வி கட்டணம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

शिक्षण शुल्क
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Öğrenim ücretleri
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tasse universitarie
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

czesne
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

плата за навчання
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

taxe de școlarizare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

δίδακτρα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

klasgelde
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

skolavgift
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

skolepenger
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tuition fees

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TUITION FEES»

The term «tuition fees» is quite widely used and occupies the 44.840 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TUITION FEES» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about tuition fees

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QUOTES WITH «TUITION FEES»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word tuition fees.
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James Blunt
If the Army helped towards my tuition fees I would then give them four years of my life.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TUITION FEES»

Discover the use of tuition fees in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tuition fees and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Tuition Fees for International Students: Nordic Practice
This study concerns the different practices in the Nordic countries regarding the implementation of tuition fees for international students.4 The study is based on three complementary approaches. The first part consists of a mapping of the ...
Oxford Research, Nordic Council of Ministers, 2013
2
Improving Access to Affordable University Education in ...
Tuition and other fees have been capped for some years in these three jurisdictions; up front rebates for a portion of tuition fees are paid to students in Manitoba and Newfoundland and Labrador. In 1990-91, Saskatchewan students paid an ...
John B. Conway, 2004
3
International Handbook of Higher Education
In terms of the supply of seats, tuition fees, and government support of institutions are the two major sources of fundsthatsupporttheoperationofpublicinstitutions. Forprivate,nonprofitinstitutions, tuition fees are typically the major source of ...
James J. F. Forest, Philip G. Altbach, 2006
4
Financing Higher Education Worldwide: Who Pays? Who Should Pay?
In the Netherlands, for example, the government establishes tuition fees for those students eligible for student support, while the institutions themselves set tuition fees for the students who are not eligible (Jongbloed 2005). In Germany, after ...
D. Bruce Johnstone, Pamela N. Marcucci, 2010
5
Higher Education and International Student Mobility in the ...
According to Johnstone (2004), cost sharing has occurred in a number of ways, including (a) introduction of tuition fees in public institutions where they did not exist before or sharp rises in countries where there were tuition fees already; (b) the ...
Kemal Guruz, 2011
6
Education at a Glance 2013 OECD Indicators: OECD Indicators
In the 2013 edition, new material includes: • more recent data on the economic crisis, showing that education remains the best protection against unemployment; • more detailed data on programme orientation (general versus vocational) in ...
OECD, 2013
7
Education at a Glance 2008 OECD Indicators: OECD Indicators
Policy context Decisions taken by policy makers on the tuition fees charged by educational institutions affect both the cost of tertiary studies to students and the resources available to tertiary institutions. Subsidies to students and their families  ...
OECD, 2008
8
Ontario Alternative Budget 2005: Addressing the Real Fiscal ...
Over the past decade, average university undergraduate tuition fees in Ontario increased by 137% in current dollars. Today, tuition fee revenue comprises 44.7 % of university operating revenue and about 24% of college operating revenue.
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2005
9
Economic Policy Reforms 2008 Going for Growth: Going for Growth
Illustrating this point, Figure 5.6 shows that increasing the fees approximately to the levels currently existing in Australia (a country that recently re-introduced tuition fees at significant levels) without at the same time reforming student loan and ...
OECD, 2008
10
OECD Economic Surveys: Austria 2001
From autumn 2001 onwards, students will be charged tuition fees, the proceeds of which will be redistributed to the universities. The plans for university reform go in the right direction and should be carried through. In particular, while the ...
OECD, 2001

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TUITION FEES»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term tuition fees is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Jeremy Corbyn announces £10bn plan to scrap university tuition fees
Jeremy Corbyn has set out a £10bn plan to scrap all tuition fees and restore ... of students for the imposition of fees, top-up fees and the replacement of grants ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
2
Starbucks offers free tuition fees to cash-strapped undergrads in the …
Starbucks already offers its baristas two years of undergraduate tuition at Arizona State University, in the south west of the US. This will now be extended to four ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Apr 15»
3
Labour promises to cut tuition fees to £6000
Ed Miliband says Labour would cut university tuition fees in England to £6,000 per year from autumn 2016. He says a Labour government would pay for the fee ... «BBC News, Feb 15»
4
Labour chaos over tuition fees pledge
Senior Labour figures are at loggerheads over how to fund a promised cut to tuition fees with just one week until Ed Miliband is due to make the announcement. «Telegraph.co.uk, Feb 15»
5
Tuition fees increase: Middle class priced out of university as …
Thousands of middle-class youngsters have been priced out of university by the trebling of tuition fees to £9,000-a-year, figures revealed yesterday. «Daily Mail, Jan 12»
6
Obama outlines incentive plan to reduce college tuition costs
“You can't assume you'll just jack up tuition every single year,” Obama said to cheers at ... would determine whether a college is holding the line on tuition fees. «Washington Post, Jan 12»
7
University tuition fees
For the same reason, it also limits the tuition fees that universities can charge British and European students. From September 2012, the cap on the fee will rise ... «The Economist, May 11»
8
UK Parliament votes to triple tuition fees
British lawmakers have approved a controversial plan to triple university tuition fees with a narrow margin as some government legislators rebelled amid violent ... «Salon, Dec 10»
9
A close vote on tuition fees
SO, THE coalition government won its first vote on raising the cap on tuition fees at English universities to £9000. The government's margin of victory was ... «The Economist, Dec 10»
10
Tuition fees vote: Plans approved despite rebellion
The government has survived a revolt by Liberal Democrat and Conservative MPs over its plans to increase university tuition fees in England. The policy was ... «BBC News, Dec 10»

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