"At a symposium entitled Government Managing Risk, the role of, and potential for, income contingent (or income related) loans to address a range of social and economic problems were explored. ... This paper summarises the arguments raised at the symposium and some of the suggested applications...

It is generally agreed that the funding base for German universities is inadequate and perhaps the time has come for serious consideration of the imposition of nontrivial tuition charges. Against this background, this paper compares conventional and income contingent loans for financing tuition...