Here are three of the week's top pieces of financial advice, gathered from around the web: Protecting your tuition dollars The soaring cost of college is leading some families to buy tuition insurance, said Jessica Dickler at CNBC. "A college education is now the second-largest expense an individual is likely to handle in a lifetime — right after purchasing a home." Tuition insurance, also known as tuition refund insurance, can protect at least some of that investment in the event a student has to withdraw from school for medical or psychological reasons.