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From: reid@sask.UUCP (I am NOT your Sweet Baboo)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Who does pay for education?
Message-ID: <631@sask.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Mar-87 14:25:09 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar  5 14:25:09 1987
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Summary: Check out the Northwest Territories

With all this talk about student loans and state-supported education,
perhaps a little reality might be appropriate:

A friend of mine through undergrad. here at UofS was from Yellowknife.  He
was on a scholarship from the NWT government which paid his tuition and (I
think) part of his living expenses.  The terms of the scholarship required
him to return to the NWT and work there for (I think) 3 years.  If he didn't
come back, the scholarship turned into an ordinary student loan and had to
be repaid.  I'm guessing at this bit, but I think the amount repaid was
reduced if you did part of your time back in the NWT.

This makes perfect sense.  The government has decided that educated people
are valuable to the society; it takes steps to create and keep educated
people.  If you want to get an education and not stay in the NWT, either
don't take the loan, or repay it afterward.  As a number of rational people
on the west coast have said, the government is not, and should not be,
required to pay for the educations of those from whom the society gains no
benefit (ie, those who leave).

As a graduate student, I think the hypothetical system needs some
modifications.  Because I am already contributing to society in terms of
research and teaching assistance, this time ought to count for any
residency requirements.  Unfortunately, this is a very difficult line to
draw; what about undergrads who do valuable research?  What about grads who
don't?

 - irving "living on the slippery slope" reid -
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reid@sask.uucp                          {alberta, ihnp4, utcsri}!sask!reid

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