The Pearson correlation test was used to assess whether there is an association between tuition fees and the age of the program, after controlling for school ownership.
"Students, academics and policymakers all need much more detailed breakdowns of where tuition fees are currently going, so that we can assess whether we are achieving the best possible value for money," he said.
(this is certainly not the case - as I always emphatically state - as we have students from all over the world who come from a wide range of socioeconomic backgrounds, and tuition is assessed on a sliding scale).
Much like a college, Cummings said, the school tries to assess a family's ability to pay and comes up with a reasonable portion of the tuition that a student and his family will be responsible for.
However, annual tuition fees, expressed as percentage of annual gross national income (GNI) per capita, were used to assess if the costs of nutrition training were within reach of the average student in the different countries (12).
Tuitions are assessed at much lower rates in Continental Europe, he noted, and much less deftly, too.
In the past, Dr. Bharucha has insisted that undergraduate tuition, to be assessed on a sliding scale with a top fee of $20,000, was the only possible way to keep Cooper Union's art, architecture and engineering schools open.
Opponents of the controversial fees, which are assessed to students in addition to tuition and are in place at 12 campuses, said they violated the system's commitment to hold student costs steady.
Mr. Chanin disputed the relevance of the magnet and charter schools, which do not charge tuition and so should not be assessed as part of the voucher program, he said.
In the past tuition increases for SUNY have been steep and sporadic and were assessed during fiscal crisis at a time when many students and families could least afford it.
