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http://www.lep.co.uk/news/business/university-s-world-first-in-bitcoin-fees-1-6608393

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WoW ! Revolutionary!

Awesome news!
It will be totally awesome to use cryto-currency like Bitcoin to pay my future children college tuition in 20-30 yrs.

Great news.

  hopefully with the coins we bought for a few hundred bucks today.  ;D

World's first to accept bitcoin? I thought the Univ. of Cyprus had that designation.

Wow, as for me, (I have two kids 5 and 6 years old) it sounds really cool, even now, when my kids are small I can start investing in their future education!!!

You are correct the university of Cyrpus has the worlds first for that and Oxford has the one for giving out Bitcoins to new students
Not sure if the first fee payment what they defined here is credited to this place but interesting enough
Still nice to read about another university taking Bitcoin now

Good news, more people are accepting bitcoins

awesome, here is hoping for more places to open up in my area that accepts it as well. already know of one coffee place!

Jem Bendell gave a great lecture in Brisbane.  He got it into uni Cumbria last year i thought.

looks like the univ students will become miners :P

Seems awesome. would be good if more of them starts accepting btc.

You can and should invest in your children's education regardless of if a particular university accepts bitcoin.

Very few people have enough money in bitcoin in order to use to to pay for a college education.

This could turn into crowd funding for student scholarships in the future :)

If I were you, I would go there.

Only if, you are satisfied with it and you will have proper learning exp. in it.

Very few people have enough money period compared to the cost of higher education, at least here in the USA.

http://www.occupydemocrats.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Screen-shot-2013-08-27-at-4.57.06-PM.png

College tuition makes the US's bloated, parasite-ridden healthcare system seem like a downright BARGAIN by comparison.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tmAj1YhY1zY/UhkDirrf4mI/AAAAAAAAAi4/4CWxtvFjMos/s1600/crazy+student+loans+2011-q2.png

Which is why students are being driven deeper and deeper into debt to try to get that education.

What a ripoff.  I hope by the time I have grown kids there will be a revolution in higher education.

End of the day ,does those students get high-paying salary to payback their loan ?

Or they don't ?

Surely this is a great news. Is much important that university learn something about bitcoin and then use it !

JoJo Very nice, our baby is growing fast... Awesome news, i think that maybe in 10-20 years all guys and girls of this forum will have their children studying in Parsons or NYU Universities which you pay up to 60k Euros anually  8)

Excellent. Now if this trend, along with bitcoin's price trend, continues, I'll be sending my kids to some very good schools when they get to be that age. Go bitcoin! :D

You are correct, but people are not going to borrow money, use the borrowed money to buy bitcoin then pay for their tuition.

This is nothing new. When btc was on the huge rally last year, I believe there were some news articles about universities accepting btc already. Same with Virgin Galactic, accepting btc to launch people to Mars haha. I thought that was pretty ridiculous, but it was a catcher for headlines.

It's very nice to hear  the news...it looks a good sign.

Can't wait to see what happens in the next few years with bitcoins

Great news!

They don't.

http://www.investors.com/image/WEB2unemp051812_345.jpg.cms
http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/blogs/moneybox/2014/05/08/unemployment_and_the_class_of_2014_how_bad_is_the_job_market_for_new_college/epi_college_unemployment.png.CROP.promovar-mediumlarge.png
http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/blogs/moneybox/2014/05/08/unemployment_and_the_class_of_2014_how_bad_is_the_job_market_for_new_college/nyfed_2.png.CROP.promovar-mediumlarge.png

Read more (http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2014/05/08/unemployment_and_the_class_of_2014_how_bad_is_the_job_market_for_new_college.html).

Things like this should help increase the public awareness of the features of Bitcoin