By Graeme Paton. Private boarding schools are slowing fee rises – and in some cases cutting prices altogether – to appeal to cash-strapped British parents, The Good Schools Guide says.
Private schools are reining in their fees and offering discounts for British parents to avoid being turned into “finishing schools” for wealthy foreigners, experts have warned. A series of price freezes and eye-catching discounts are being introduced because of concerns many institutions risk descending into little more than havens for the “super rich", according to the latest issue of The Good Schools Guide. It was claimed that schools may lose their character and “cease to be so attractive to overseas parents if there are no British families there to rub shoulders with”.
Figures show that fees at some of Britain's top boarding schools now top £33,000 a year. More...

By Jeff Selingo. Tuition resets—essentially, slashing the sticker price of tuition to the discounted price most students pay anyway—have become a popular public-relations stunt recently for a few colleges that are trying to reframe the conversation about the rising cost of higher ed and, most important, to help them fill their classroom seats and dorms. More...

By Matt Reed. Governor Haslam, of Tennessee, has proposed using state lottery revenues to create an endowment to fund the tuition and fees for new high school graduates at community colleges within the state.
I’m guardedly optimistic.  The concept sounds good, but could easily become a Trojan horse. Read more...

By Michael Stratford. The top Democrat on the House of Representatives Oversight Committee on Monday asserted that more than 100 colleges may be violating federal law by either requiring students to submit fee-based forms for federal student aid or insinuating that such forms are needed to access that aid. Read more...

By Graeme Paton. David Willetts, the Universities Minister, says some 20,000 UK students would be able to study at Scottish universities for free in the event of independence, leaving a £150m "blackhole" in the education budget north of the border.
 Thousands of English, Welsh and Northern Irish students will study at Scottish universities for free in the event of a "yes" vote in this year’s independence referendum, according to the higher education minister. 
Up to 20,000 students from outside Scotland will be eligible for free tuition because of EU rules prohibiting states from discriminating on the grounds of nationality, said David Willetts. More...