Former Nova Scotia premier John Hamm’s prescription for dealing with the annual exodus of Nova Scotia university graduates to greener pastures is: "Punish those who leave, reward those who stay." He has proposed a carrot-and-stick approach to stem the exodus of new graduates.
He proposes that students who leave the province after they graduate should pay back some of the cost of their education.
"We have traditionally been a training ground for other jurisdictions and maybe we should look more aggressively at saying, ‘If you stay in Nova Scotia, that’s great, but if you don’t stay in Nova Scotia, maybe there’s an indebtedness that you take on by taking the training that was paid for partly by the Nova Scotia taxpayer and take it to another jurisdiction,’ " Hamm said.
Nova Scotia university tuitions have climbed to become the highest in Canada at an average of $6,281.
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Graduates should pay if they leave Nova Scotia
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Hamm has lost his marbles. Nova Scotia university students already pay more for their tuition than anywhere else in the country.
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