This is the same as we see in conventional commerce now. In I.T., for example, some qualifications are expensive and much needed parts of a cv. People may be sponsored by the employer and then be bonded on a sliding scale for 12 or 24 months, depending upon the value of the course they attend.
It is all part of the need of management to move risk and cost from them to the individual. This will soon become the normal practise and folks will not remember that it used to be done any other way.
Can be it stopped (in any field)? No, not a chance. Reason? Every 12 months, the high schools and universities kick out another bunch of eager young people.
