I wrote a business plan and asked my parents if, instead of paying my final year of tuition fees, they would consider investing that money in my business - hence the "gamble" in my company name.
Until MOOCs have a clear purpose, they are merely prototypes for a business model that may or may not succeed.Ben Mueller London SIR – My son recently graduated from a small liberal-arts college in New England, where his final year cost $57,000 in tuition, room and board, with the cost having risen above inflation in each of his four years.
With their incomes flat, though, they recently borrowed money to pay for her final year, and to begin paying the tuition of their son, who plans to start college this fall.
The reader made a sensible suggestion: Instead of paying tuition in the final year, a student would be required to raise his own money for equity to start and run a small business;say, a hot dog stand, car wash or dry cleaner.
Now in her final year, with the prospect of around 27k of tuition fees to repay, she's questioning whether her degree course was worth the investment.
Each Siebel Scholar receives a $35,000 award to defray tuition and expenses in the final year of his or her graduate studies.
Our plan would be to scrap tuition fees for students in their final year of their first-degree study and so on.
Siddiqui told the High Court that the tuition he claimed was "appallingly bad" had brought down his overall mark in final year.
Ten students in their final year of study at Columbia University's School of Professional Studies have each received a $2,000 Innovation Scholarship to be applied toward tuition.
For her, $30,000 a year tuition would be a wipeout.
