Also, several universities were risking fines because they collected the tuition fees but never used them for anything. Part of the problem was that tuition fe

Also, several universities were risking fines because they collected the tuition fees but never used them for anything. Part of the problem was that tuition fees were legally required to be used only in certain ways ("Verbesserung der Qualität der Lehre", literally "improving the quality of education") but most of the new projects the universities actually started were changes to the administration or constructing new buildings (including lecture halls) rather than hiring more teachers or actually improving the education.