eliminates tuition fees
This school is located in America.
The state kept advertising how kids could get 'free tuition' if the met the academic requirements (combination of testing high enough and overall GPA) - but in reality, it worked out to less than 10% of the actual cost of attending this in-state, public university.
Was still nice to get the $1,800 off the bill, but it was hardly 'free tuition'.
PS: Not criticizing this medical school plan - just pointing out that the definition of tuition can, and does, vary - even in the USA.
Admittedly pedantic, but they are not wrong.
Do you have a source for this? I am reasonably sure that in American English "Tuition" can certainly mean the fees you pay to be taught.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tuition#English
> (Canada, US) A sum of money paid for instruction (such as in a high school, boarding school, university, or college).
> Synonym: (UK) tuition fees
Slater's correction may still be fair, despite the context of this being an American school, because it's a headline from a British website..
Tuition = the money you pay for your schooling, I.e., credit hours.
Fees = Costs on top of tuition like registration fees, application fees, and other miscellaneous charges that aren’t represented in the per-credit hour price of school.
If you told someone in the US that their school was eliminating fees they’d take that to mean that they were getting a small discount on a still-very large cost. Think in the realm of $30-100 per semester.
American English has basically detached the word “tuition” to have anything to do with the teaching.