The education cost would be far higher if college were included, even accounting for children who don't attend college, pay for it themselves or attend low-priced institutions.
Instead, it is using an inflation index it has developed, called the Higher Education Cost Adjustment, which is designed to take into account the cost of the goods and services purchased by colleges and universities, and which is consistently higher than CPI.
In his new biography of Tony Blair (see article), Anthony Seldon argues that Mr Brown's sulky reluctance to apply his strategic talents to health and education has cost the government dear.
We need low-cost higher education and even lower-cost child care and pre-school.
Realizing the potential at his fingertips, Thrun launched Udacity, an independent online education company that provides high quality education at low cost to virtually everyone.
And he likely would have been flummoxed by the ever-increasing expense of higher education: The cost of a four-year private college rose 4.2 percent between the 2011-12 and 2012-13 school years, according to the College Board's Trends In College Pricing.
The move also comes amid radical shifts to the education business, with online start-ups and top-flight colleges pushing more and more students to the Internet for low- and n0-cost education, and local school districts across the nation cutting budgets amid financial pressures.
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For example, you can find the cost of Pell grants in the Department of Education budget, but not the cost of the AOTC.
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Key technology leaders are striving to increase access to education through low-cost or free peer-to-peer and open-source models.
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People from any country, any background and any income level can receive an elite education at virtually no cost.
The President and politicians of all stripes are concerned about both access to higher education and its rising cost.
The cost of education is moving increasingly toward us, which we cannot afford.
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S2241 duplicates existing controls and adds to the cost of education for everyone.
In North Sulawesi, for example, all five candidates promised to reduce the cost of education and improve the regional economy.
If we abolish tenure, the new market equilibrium would result in higher average salaries, thus further increasing the cost of education.
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Today, we focus on higher education, specifically the cost of medical school.
"As the cost of education goes up, so parents seem to feel that they need to have an element of control, " says Mr Hallam.
Distance learning threatens one day to disrupt higher education by reducing the cost of college and by offering the convenience of a stay-at-home, do-it-on-your-own-time education.
By developing low-cost distance education programs new companies have found new markets, especially among working adults who want to get a degree without giving up their full-time jobs.
This was mostly down to high house prices, high youth unemployment, rising public debt and the cost of education, added Prof Sefton, who is also a quantitative analyst at UBS bank.
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And this is after a decade when, for most middle-class families, incomes actually shrank and wages flat-lined, and the only thing rising faster was medical costs and the cost of education.
Cambridge University has previously said reducing fees for island students would be discriminatory and Imperial College has said its decision had been based on the high cost of education at the college.
If the cost of education continues to rise at its current pace, this would appear to be a good hedge, but the solidity of your prepaid plan of choice must also be considered.
Ms. JANE ROSEN: Why is the Department Of Education charging these young borrowers far more than banks and the Federal Reserve Bank charge their customers, so that the cost of higher education is even more prohibitive than it needs to be?
More public education is needed on the huge cost that lack of access to safe water is having on health, education and economic development in many nations.
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It's time for parents and students to look at the entire enterprise of higher education and ask -- how, when, where, for whom, in what studies and at what cost is a college education appropriate?
Second, some governments can readily cut the cost of university education without harming quality.
First, more of the cost of higher education should be borne by individual students.
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