Types of deferred tuition and attempts to establish them in the Czech Republic

Abstract

The budgets of Czech public universities depend heavily on public finance. Universities face an impossible trinity: all three goals that a country usually wants in university education – greater quantity, higher quality and moderate public spending – cannot be achieved simultaneously. The aim of the article is to discuss possible ways of increas-ing the share of student payments without reducing the number of students and preventing students from low-income groups from studying. Human capital contracts, graduated tax and income-contingent loans are introduced with examples of the systems used in Australia and England. The article also contains a list of the reasons why the Czech attempts to establish deferred tuition have failed and the problems that must be solved before another at-tempt is made.