Category: Budgets

Faculty bargaining is going to get nasty over the next few years. Provinces appear to be in a mood neither for increasing grants to institutions nor for allowing domestic tuition to rise. Since that’s 85-90% of most institutions’ budgets, that makes overall revenue increases very difficult. The solution from the 90s – that is, packing in more domestic students – is tougher this time out because of demographics. International students are the only significant potential source of new revenue, but

Just a few quick thoughts on the federal budget (I’m skipping the gory details, but I do encourage you to read our team’s full budget summary, available here.) 1) When can we all publicly admit that the PMO has become the fourth granting council? This habit of handing out money to specific scientific projects outside the tri-council structure is becoming dangerously entrenched. Sure, I’m happy for McMaster and their new $6.5 million health outcomes project, but is it good public