tuition fees
Money paid for instruction at a school, college, or university, especially at higher education institutions.
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IELTS use
Use this phrase in essays about university funding, student debt, free education, social mobility, and government subsidies.
Examples
- High tuition fees can discourage students from low-income families from attending university.
- Some people believe that tuition fees should be paid by students because they benefit personally from higher education.
Collocations
- high tuition fees
- High tuition fees may increase educational inequality.
- pay tuition fees
- Many students work part-time to pay tuition fees.
Word family
- Noun
- tuition
- Verb
- teach
- Adjective
- educational
- Adverb
- financially
Paraphrases
- university fees: More specific to higher education.
- the cost of education: Broader and can include books, housing, and transport.
Common mistakes
- tuition fee are expensive to tuition fees are expensive. Use the plural form fees with are.