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You aren’t interpreting this correctly, they are indeed eliminating all tuition, not just the fees.

by dangus 3y ago

titanomachy 3y ago
“Tuition” is teaching. “Tuition fees” are the fees you pay to be taught. Admittedly pedantic, but they are not wrong.
- kopecs 3y ago
  > “Tuition” is teaching. “Tuition fees” are the fees you pay to be taught. Do you have a source for this? I am reasonably sure that in American English "Tuition" can certainly mean the fees you pay to be taught.
- delecti 3y ago
  It seems that "tuition fees" might be a commonwealth term. In the US, the name of the fee is simply "tuition".
  - lupusreal 3y ago
    Correct. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tuition#English https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tuition#English > (Canada, US) A sum of money paid for instruction (such as in a high school, boarding school, university, or college). > Synonym: (UK) tuition fees Slater's correction may still be fair, despite the context of this being an American school, because it's a headline from a British website..
entropyie 3y ago
Tuition is the act of teaching... I sure hope they aren't eliminating that. It is indeed the fees that are being eliminated.
- dangus 3y ago
  In US vernacular it works like this: Tuition = the money you pay for your schooling, I.e., credit hours. Fees = Costs on top of tuition like registration fees, application fees, and other miscellaneous charges that aren’t represented in the per-credit hour price of school. If you told someone in the US that their school was eliminating fees they’d take that to mean that they were getting a small discount on a still-very large cost. Think in the realm of $30-100 per semester. American English has basically detached the word “tuition” to have anything to do with the teaching.
- recursive 3y ago
  No, tuition is only the cost associated. Or at least, it certainly can be the cost. I've never heard any other usage.

You aren’t interpreting this correctly, they are indeed eliminating all tuition, not just the fees.

by dangus 3y ago

You aren’t interpreting this correctly, they are indeed eliminating all tuition, not just the fees.

titanomachy 3y ago

“Tuition” is teaching. “Tuition fees” are the fees you pay to be taught. Admittedly pedantic, but they are not wrong.

kopecs 3y ago
> “Tuition” is teaching. “Tuition fees” are the fees you pay to be taught. Do you have a source for this? I am reasonably sure that in American English "Tuition" can certainly mean the fees you pay to be taught.
delecti 3y ago
It seems that "tuition fees" might be a commonwealth term. In the US, the name of the fee is simply "tuition".
- lupusreal 3y ago
  Correct. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tuition#English https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tuition#English > (Canada, US) A sum of money paid for instruction (such as in a high school, boarding school, university, or college). > Synonym: (UK) tuition fees Slater's correction may still be fair, despite the context of this being an American school, because it's a headline from a British website..

entropyie 3y ago

Tuition is the act of teaching... I sure hope they aren't eliminating that. It is indeed the fees that are being eliminated.

dangus 3y ago
In US vernacular it works like this: Tuition = the money you pay for your schooling, I.e., credit hours. Fees = Costs on top of tuition like registration fees, application fees, and other miscellaneous charges that aren’t represented in the per-credit hour price of school. If you told someone in the US that their school was eliminating fees they’d take that to mean that they were getting a small discount on a still-very large cost. Think in the realm of $30-100 per semester. American English has basically detached the word “tuition” to have anything to do with the teaching.
recursive 3y ago
No, tuition is only the cost associated. Or at least, it certainly can be the cost. I've never heard any other usage.