However, a recent report (pdf) analysing data returns from music hubs in 2013 showed that just 12.8% of participants received a subsidy in tuition, compared with 18.3% of children being eligible for free school meals nationally.
In a survey of 11- to 16-year-olds by the Sutton Trust, an education charity, 45% of Asian children said they received some kind of private tuition compared with 20% of white pupils.
It meant that students studying at Scottish universities would be charged an extra year of tuition fees compared with students studying a comparable course elsewhere in the UK.
In London, 44% of pupils had private or home tuition last year, compared with 34% in 2005.
Some 31% of wealthier pupils received private tuition last year compared with 15% from poorer families, according to a survey for the Sutton Trust.
As in most of continental Europe, university education is financed almost entirely by taxpayers, making tuition relatively low compared with countries like the United States or Britain.
Many excluded pupils receive as little as three or four hours of tuition each week (compared with the government's target of 25 hours).
But paying the tuition is easy compared with getting in.
While surveyed TPV refugees reported significantly more difficulties in accessing education, English language tuition and welfare, compared with PHV refugees, their narratives were more focused on the pervasive and detrimental impact of the interminable uncertainty about their future, social isolation, anger and sense of injustice.
UConn, founded in 1881 with its main campus in Storrs and branches in Groton, Stamford, Torrington, Waterbury and West Hartford, has a total of 25,000 students and charges tuition of $7,100, compared with the State University tuition of $5,100.
The total tuition: $68,000 a year, compared with $36,400 for nonboarders.
