The federal and provincial governments have been underfunding universities for decades. Recently, universities were able to start recruiting foreign students to make up for the shortfall, but it looks like that money tap will be turned down. It doesn’t look like there’s a plan to make up for it.

At the same time, the feds want to

recruit more than 1,000 top international researchers to Canada, with the budget injecting up to $1.7-billion into a suite of recruitment measures.

That’ll be tough if universities see their income crater.

  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
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    8 hours ago

    The $1.7 B is a temporary measure to fund researcher salaries and research costs. They plan to recruit 1000 into a system that already has dwindling grant support and 12% grant success rates with 30% budget cuts. Even if anyone moved here for this, they will just moved back to the US once funding is restored in 36 months, so all Carney is doing is giving US science $1.7B to generate IP that will be developed in the US eventually, while ignoring scientists and engineers in Canada.

    The US spent 4X per capita on science than Canada before Trump, and they have the computing and biotech industries worth trillions to show for it.

    You can’t just move 1000 into Canada without more infrastructure because research already costs insitutions money.

    Not sure where this fantasy of Professors lighting cigars with $100 bills is coming from, other than very few on Lemmy seem to be aware at what goes on in these insitutions.

    • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
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      8 hours ago

      The $1.7 B is a temporary measure to fund researcher salaries and research costs.

      It’s $134 million over three years to bring doctoral and post doctoral students over from the US, which isn’t temporary, and doesn’t mean it will end in three years, it just means that’s how far out they’ve budgeted funding for at the moment. They’re not going to be doing a detailed budget for these years out from now so it’s entirely likely that program will just get extended if it’s successful.

      Then it’s $1B over 13 years in new grants, which may not be as much as the US, but is not nothing and is not temporary.

      And lol if you think researchers are going to want to go back to the US or will be welcome back to the US in the short to mid term. They elected Trump on two non-consecutive occassions. If those researchers don’t come here they’re going to the EU, UK, Korea, Japan, India, etc.