Roehampton is up thanks to increasing popularity with students".
But prices were heading down anyway thanks to increased supply.
He says that things have improved, thanks to increasing academic globalisation and pressure to recruit the best, regardless of background or nationality.
Even so, he expects that by the second half of next year, the United States will be recovering strongly, thanks to increased federal spending and the Fed's rate cuts.
It will paint a picture of a higher education system that, thanks to increasing use of data, is likely to undergo radical change, sometimes with painful ethical considerations.
The problem has soared thanks to increasing internet sales, particularly as online booking is often the only possibility with low-cost air carriers.
And it will be in part thanks to increased carbon emissions, a fact that Texas will have a hard time confronting.
"As bandwidth increases and technologies like ray tracing [simulating 3D effects] and video delivery become more realistic thanks to increasing processing power and faster connections then we will have worlds that will look very real in the future.
Having spent a year working in the voluntary sector, Fountain says there is little future for traditional grant-dependent charitable projects thanks to increasing competition for shrinking funding streams.
And Lazard's asset management arm reported a 13 percent rise in revenue, to $248 million, as the firm's assets under management rose to a record $176 billion thanks to increasing values and new client money.
