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From: jmsellens@watdragon.UUCP
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: education
Message-ID: <2397@watdragon.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Mar-87 16:26:18 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar  5 16:26:18 1987
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Reply-To: jmsellens@watdragon.UUCP (John M. Sellens)
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In article <7739@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
>Some places in the US are trying out an interesting approach to the problems
>of high college tuition and inadequate supply of pre-college teachers:
>tuition loans that are written off if the new graduate spends a couple of
>years as a teacher.  This idea has considerable merit.

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario has had a similar plan
for some time now for PhD students in accounting.  They lend you X$ a
year and forgive Y$ a year for each year you teach.  A good deal if
you wanted to teach anyway, and even if you didn't.  (We need more
accounting profs.)