Universities ask for additional funding in upcoming budget

Canadian universities are asking the federal government to commit as much as CA$6 billion (US$4.3 billion) in additional funding for research over the next five years in next week’s budget, writes Joe Friesen for The Globe and Mail.

The schools want Ottawa to steadily increase the amount of money available for faculty-led research through the national granting councils. They’re also calling for an increase to the grants and stipends paid to young researchers, whose pay rates haven’t changed in 20 years in many cases.

Although university leaders are optimistic the government will heed their call, they were similarly bullish a year ago, ahead of the 2023 federal budget and the fall economic statement. In both cases, the government failed to deliver.
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