According to an article in the Gazette, the Nova Scotia government currently does not seem to think that reducing the insane tuition increases for professional students is an important topic. It’s to the point where student loans do not cover the entirety of tuition.
For instance, I find it very counterproductive that the government expects medical students to pay 10% increases every year, and then turns around and decries a “doctor shortage”, begging these debt-ridden doctors to stay in low-pay Nova Scotia.
The only solution to this is to vote with your dollars and your skills, professional students! Once you graduate, move to Ontario or Alberta. You’ll get paid more money and have to pay less taxes as well, so your debt will disappear quicker. You owe this province nothing, so why sacrifice anything for it?
Once it gets bad enough, the administration will have no choice but to make changes.
Yes, I am a professional student.
Yes, I am leaving.
Goodbye Nova Scotia.
This article appears in Feb 28 – Mar 5, 2008.
“you owe this province nothing”??If you didn’t grow up here that is probably true. If you did grow up here, I am sorry to hear you feel that way. I feel that growing up in Nova Scotia is a very rewarding experience and I fell a strong sense of loyalty to the communities that I was raised in. There is a set of values and attitudes that are unique to the Maritimes and while there are some financial drawbacks to living in Nova Scotia, the aesthetic and cultural rewards far outweigh the need to take an extra year or two to payback my loans. And the provincial government can’t control tuition costs. The problem is with the federal funding formula that gives money to the provinces based on their population, not how many students are attending their universities. The federal money for all the ontario students who come to Dal stays in ontario and leaves our province to shoulder that financial burden. And medical students generally don’t have a tough time paying back thier loans whether they stay in Nova Scotia or not.
don’t let the door hit ya on the way !! cheers dude
good to see a couple of you feel so strongly about your home city. as for me, ya i’m new to the maritimes. the funny thing about moving east this far, is that the nicest people i’ve met in the last city i lived in are maritimers and they told me to move here. they haven’t forgotten being a maritimer, but yes, they left only because of the lack of jobs. but once you find how unfriendly some wonderful cities of our great land are, the maritimers do come home to roost…in the end. have a lovely journey but don’t burn your bridges just yet !
I lived away from Halifax while working in Toronto. And then was transferred to NewBrunswick. Once I got the chance I moved back here. Yes the job situation isn’t the greatest but this is home to me. Nowhere else in Canada would be home for me other than Halifax.