Sue Templeton, who runs Twist in the Tale, which runs tuition courses in verbal reasoning for the 11+ in Buckinghamshire, says their company is getting more inquiries from parents of children as young as five "keen to fill any gap that they think there is".
The group who also run a tuition-free art school the Bruce High Quality Foundation University work with a roster of rotating anonymous artists and have a new exhibition entitled Pearls set to open at London's Pippy Houldsworth Gallery in February 2017.
In the 1970s, Yale University ran a Tuition Postponement Option (TPO).
"You're correct, some universities are running up tuition increases far above the rate of inflation," Duncan said.
Their unpaid labor was the fuel that made the system run and allowed it to operate tuition free.
Even the state schools have run up their tuition as they face state budget crunches.
Presuming that the endowment didn't generate any interest and that no one ever contributed to it again, Harvard could run the college tuition free for approximately 313 years.
The tuitions run from $500 annually for elementary students, to $700 for high-school students.
Surgeons, like all medics, run up huge tuition-fee debts during the first years of their long training as they pay full fees, and while they may be paid a salary while training in hospitals, they are actually providing a service to the NHS.
With stretched public finances, it is hard to see how university finances can be stable in the long run without tuition fees; yet they are firmly ruled out.
