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free university

American  

noun

  1. a school run informally by and for college students, organized to offer courses and approaches not usually offered in a college curriculum.


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Free university tuition and more generous benefits in Scotland may have to be reconsidered as the country's funding advantage relative to England narrows, a think tank has suggested.

From BBC

Scotland has used its devolved powers to set up a distinct tax system, which helps fund a more generous social security support and free university education.

From BBC

With their support so low after the February polls, the CDU/CSU and the SPD "are finding it more difficult to reach compromises," Aiko Wagner, a political scientist at the Free University of Berlin, told AFP.

From Barron's

The first minister said that allowed the government to help fund free university tuition, prescriptions, free bus travel for under-22s and action against child poverty.

From BBC

This week’s award of the Nobel Prize in physics to Peter Higgs of the University of Edinburgh and Francois Englert of the Free University of Brussels is a reminder of how the U.S. blew the chance to confirm their theory of the “Higgs boson.”

From Los Angeles Times