Clarification and Correction: November 11, 2010

Earlier today I compared possible increases in tuition fees for British college students to what students in New Jersey pay for tuition and fees at Rutgers, the state university, and to tuition and fees at Drew University, a private university in New Jersey. I may have suggested that British students would still pay less for tuition after an increase to £9000, or $15,000, then New Jersey residents would pay at Rutgers. They would not. My point was that British students currently pay less than their Rutgers counterparts. It is conceivable, of course, that Rutgers tuition for New Jersey residents, combined with other fees, could also increase in the near future, leaving New Jerseyans who attend Rutgers ultimately paying more for public higher education than the British in the longer run.

And I don't know how any non-tuition fees in the United Kingdom would affect those numbers, or if they are in fact factored into the proposed £9000 tuition.

Also, a correction. I earlier misspelled the first name of South Dakota's junior U.S. Senator. It is "John" Thune, not "Jon" Thune. So South Dakotans can stop bothering me. ;-)