The widest school choice for poor households comes when there are no tuition fees at all.

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Scots students pay no fees for tuition.

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For parents, it would mean that in financial terms, sending a child to university would be similar to their being in the sixth form at school or college, with the family typically providing accommodation but with no fees for tuition.

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There will be no large increases in university tuition fees for students starting courses in 2012, the first and deputy first ministers have confirmed.

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From this year, said Mr Wen, schools would no longer charge tuition or other fees for children having their compulsory education (up to the end of junior high school).

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As Sir Mervyn went out of his way to point out, this is in no small part because of government policies - notably the rise in tuition fees and administered increases in transport and utility bills - which the central bank could not predict, let alone control.

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Although young people might be thinking twice about the extra cost of tuition fees and student loans, admissions service figures have shown no sign that it is enough to stop young people applying.

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This, too, is no panacea, but it does make schools more driven by market forces (tuition fees), incentivizes them to pay more attention to students, and rewards success (or at least popularity amongst students) more than under current funding formulas.

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When variable tuition fees were introduced in England in 2006, the government said there would be no lifting of the cap until after a review of their impact had taken place.

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