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by mhaymo 2014 days ago
Different in important ways. There is no risk of ruin from an ISA: if you aren't earning you don't have to pay.

The idea is also that this aligns the school's incentives with the student's: if the student doesn't prosper, the school doesn't get paid.

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Public student loans (90%+ of loan disbursements) work like this as well.

The max you will have to pay is 10% of your discretionary income (10% of income above 1.5x the poverty level).