Ahh it was Aleeza Gerstein and shes here too! Look at these graphs and tell me how the budget solves this? It’s like 80% of grad students are paid from grants. So without real funding increases to grants, we continue to have a huge barrier to increases grad pay. https://bsky.app/profile/acgerstein.bsky.social/post/3kqdkqom7m62i
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signals the end of their ability to have a viable research program. Nearly HALF of all @NSERC Discovery Grant holders can not afford even a single PhD student off their grant at the new rates (data from 2023). A small general funding increase won’t compensate. This isn’t equitable unless 2/4
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2. The number of scholarships is going up too. The pie got bigger.
Anyway, students deserve fair support. The feds have stepped up. Provinces need to do the same.