A front-page article on Monday about efforts by the Army to retain junior officers included an erroneous reference, from an Army spokesman, to tuition incentives.
Is this due to high demand for physicians in these countries, financial (i.e. tuition) incentives for universities to promote education over research, or lack of funding for research?
Thus, it would seem plausible that in countries where health care education is subsidized to such an extent that students have to pay very little tuition, financial-incentive programmes could be substantially less attractive than in the United States.
In return for coming back to their communities and teaching in their local schools, they could be offered partial payment of college tuition or other incentives.
As the worst teaching shortage in decades looms, New York is among a growing number of cities and states with fast-track programs promising free graduate school tuition and other incentives to lure people from other professions into teaching.
In addition, for optometrists there are currently no programs that provide encouragement (e.g., financial incentives, tuition coverage) to practice in rural areas.
Many teaching fellows interviewed yesterday said that the Board of Education's offer to pay their graduate school tuition was a huge incentive for signing up, along with an application process far simpler than the bewildering system normally used for prospective teachers.
Teachers' leaders welcomed Wilshaw's intervention, and made their own suggestion that the government should write off teachers' university tuition fees as an incentive to keep newly qualified teachers in English state schools.
That modest increase would add some small incentives, like tuition reimbursements for teachers, but it cannot begin to solve the problem of recruiting and retaining good teachers, where low pay is a huge impediment.
Note that many Singapore companies prefer to add cash to their incentives over tuition or other items.
President Obama's proposal to provide colleges with an incentive to keep tuition affordable will have a modest impact on tuition inflation.
