Thirty percent off Ontario tuition

Rising Tuition Fees: Measuring the Impact Upon Undergraduate Enrolment in Ontario, 1977/78 – 1996/97

Tuition Exchange *

We introduce a new class of matching problems that mimics the tuition exchange programs employed by colleges in the US to enable the dependents of their eligible faculty to use their tuition benefits at other participating institutions. Each participating college has to maintain a balance between exported and imported students; a negative balance with exports exceeding imports is generally pena...

Thirty percent of patients have moderate to severe pain 24 hr after ambulatory surgery: a survey of 5,703 patients.

PURPOSE Postoperative pain is the commonest reason for delayed discharge and unanticipated hospital admission after ambulatory surgery. We investigated the severity of pain at 24 hr postoperatively and determined the most painful procedures. The need for further medical advice and clarity of postoperative analgesia instructions were also studied. METHODS Five thousand seven hundred and three ...

Tuition Hikes and Student Performance

This paper develops a simple time-allocation model to examine the relationship between college tuition and students’ performance at college studies. We find that an increase in tuition lowers performance. Further, it is found that an increase in the wage rate lowers performance (since it results in an increase in the hours spent working). Our model thus (indirectly) provides theoretical support...

Spatial Co-ordination in Music Tuition

Playing an instrument is a physical skill learned through observation, repetition and rehearsal. Students of orchestral instruments seek one-to-one tuition from expert musicians. However as they become more accomplished, the number of suitable tutors becomes more concentrated, especially for less common instruments. Often a tutor-student relationship develops over several years and temporary se...