Prince Williams gets hefty discount on Cambridge fees
Prince Williams gets hefty discount on Cambridge fees, Prince William, Cambridge University. Prince William has been given a hefty discount on his fees for a special course at Cambridge University, a media report said on Sunday.
LONDON: Prince William has been given a hefty discount on his fees for a special course at Cambridge University, a media report said on Sunday.
William, 31, is paying around £10,000 to study agricultural management but the Mirror quoted sources as saying that they had expected the cost to be higher because the crash course has been especially organized just for him.
The 10-week study stint is to prepare him for when he inherits the Duchy Of Cornwall from Prince Charles. Student leaders on Saturday attacked the cut-price deal, which comes as ordinary undergraduates struggle with £9,000 annual tuition fees and leave university with an average £25,000 debt, the report said.
"It's not as though the Queen has had to remortgage Buckingham Palace to help him through university," National Union of Students (NUS) vice president Dom Anderson said. "There are surely more deserving postgraduate students in Cambridge than the heir to the British throne who will inherit a £400 million estate. Many feel the royal family receives quite enough of a subsidy as it is," he was quoted as saying.
