Year 7 students also take part in compulsory music tuition where they may choose one instrument to learn as part of a small group, with a range of musical groups represented including guitars, brass, woodwind and percussion.
After narrowing the list to around 120 schools based on academic quality -- using test scores, admission and persistence rates, student-faculty ratios, and graduation rates as their metrics -- Kiplinger evaluated the institutions based on cost, calculated by looking at tuition, compulsory fees, room and board, books and aid, including grants and other forms of aid and outstanding debt.
The local award covers tuition fees, compulsory fees, annual allowance, and book allowance.
It covers tuition and compulsory fees, maintenance allowances, clothing and book allowance, excess baggage allowance, health insurance, and a return airfare from Singapore.
According to Becker (1964)'s theory, whether to send their children to school is the result of a trade-off between the expected returns and the cost of education (e.g., tuition, material, compulsory uniform, transport, and opportunity cost).
The scholarship covers a settling-in allowance of S$200, a maintenance allowance of S$6000 per annum, hostel allowance, tuition and other compulsory fees, and a return air ticket from Hong Kong.
The report urged governments to make at least one year of pre-primary education compulsory, and to abolish fees for tuition, textbooks, uniforms and transport.
Replacement of a compulsory public contract with cost-related tuition fees and payback by rural work should be applied gradually and cautiously and in conjunction with other strategies.
Almond asked the legislature to repeal all aspects of the Stanley plan which had been overturned by the courts, repeal the state's compulsory school attendance law, adopt a $3 million tuition grant program to allow students to attend segregated private schools of their choice, and strengthen the penalty for threatening to bomb a church, school, or other meeting place.
In order to achieve educational equality without selecting or streaming students during their basic education, Finland introduced a compulsory 9-year comprehensive school with no tuition fees and with free school meals and subsidised transportation services in 1972.
