From now on, customers must be quoted up-front fees, and be told about charges.
All students could be charged, so increasing the revenue compared with up-front fees.
So if you hear tales that are way too good to be true, at least investigate them before you call in and pay large up-front fees.
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However demands that they should receive the same benefits as full-time students - such as not having to pay up-front fees - look set to be disappointed.
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They have succeeded in abolishing up-front fees in the Scottish Parliament and now want the Welsh Assembly, where they have recently joined in a coalition with the Labour Party, to adopt a similar policy.
Their main aim is to make sure that independent financial advisers charge up-front fees for their work and advice, rather than taking an annual cut of their clients funds as regular commission, of which the client may be only dimly aware.
Higher Education Minister Bill Rammell said there was nothing new in students taking term-time jobs to supplement their lifestyle, but the abolition of up-front fees from September this year and bursaries for less well-off students would make money less of a concern.
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He said up-front tuition fees were incompatible with Scotland's philosophy of higher education.
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Ms Smith said her party had ruled out up-front tuition fees and a pure graduate tax and instead declared themselves in favour of a deferred fees system facilitated through income contingent loans.
But it doesn't take a calculator to see how a long-term investor--which is what people investing for retirement are supposed to be--would pay a lot more after just a few years, even if up-front Class A-type fees are waived, as they often are in retirement accounts.
Mr Blair appeared to rule out the option this week when he said that reform would not mean parents having to pay thousands of pounds of fees up-front.
This is because the new fees and grants are to be paid up-front by the government and only repaid by students once they are working: in the short term, universities that over-recruit will be stretching the education budget.
User fees are a tax that discriminates against small companies, which cannot comfortably afford additional, up-front regulatory expenses.
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