The Student Debt Crisis: Income-Share Agreements as a means to Finance Higher Education

By TomMackenzie (2020)

Assume that you are an Economics graduate and have been recently hired by the Tertiary Scholarship Loans Board (TSLB). After one month into your first ever job, your CEO believes in you and has recommended that you prepare for a 5 to 10 minutes presentation to a 6-member Parliamentary Advisory Committee on Education Affairs which includes 4 Government MP's and 2 Opposition MP's. Your presentation topic is 'Can Economics offer options to avoid a potential student loan funding crisis - The Case of Fiji?'. Using theTom Mackenziearticle as your key resource, prepare presentation withno more than8 slides(inclusive) to convince your CEO and the Committee members. Use local examples in the presentation.