In my profession, medical laboratory science, right now about 80% of the students go to university first. They have their B.Sc. and think they're destined for medical school and find out that's not happening. There are very few jobs you can do without getting your next professional certification or licence, or without moving into the master's realm. My students today are graduating at about 25 to 27 years of age with six to eight years of student loans behind them. Even though my profession is not included in the loans relief program, I do believe it would be an incentive to move to rural and remote locations.
The other bonus behind that employment is they don't offer, as the large urban areas do, a job that's a point to or casual employment; they offer a real full-time job. We think that a real full-time job along with a loan forgiveness program that would help them pay back years of loans would definitely help. I do know there are some programs where there are things such as workforce relocation bonuses, but what we find is sometimes other employers will buy out the contract or the return to service agreement.
I'm not too sure what the perfect solution is, but we'd like to be included in the pilot, if we could.