{"id":54687,"date":"2019-03-20T14:29:33","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T18:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?p=54687"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:36:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:36:38","slug":"federal-budget-students-skills-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/2019\/federal-budget-students-skills-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Budget Includes Investments in Students, Skills and Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Federal Budget Includes Investments in Students, Skills and Research\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University welcomes initiatives announced in the 2019 federal budget that will provide new investments in skills, Indigenous post-secondary education, scholarships and fellowships, research and student mobility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe budget investments in skills and work-integrated learning, Indigenous students and international mobility will create new capacity in the university sector and provide unique opportunities for our students,\u201d said Benoit-Antoine Bacon, president and vice-chancellor. \u201cI am particularly pleased to see new funding for the Post-Secondary Student Support program and for Indspire that will increase Indigenous students\u2019 access to post-secondary education.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Funding of university research is an important element in the budget plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn 2018, the sector applauded the federal government\u2019s multi-year investment of $3.2 billion in university research,\u201d said Rafik Goubran, vice-president (Research and International). \u201cAs part of that multi-year commitment, $463 million in funding will be allocated in 2019-\u201820 to support the work of scientists and researchers. These investments are an acknowledgement of the critical role universities play in discovery and mobilizing knowledge to benefit society and the communities we live in.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additional elements of the budget that are important to the university sector include new investments in work-integrated learning; expanded post-secondary options within the Arctic and northern regions of Canada; 500 new master\u2019s scholarships and 167 new doctoral scholarship awards annually; and expanded parental leave for students and postdoctoral fellows, improving equity and inclusion in university research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University welcomes initiatives announced in the 2019 federal budget that will provide new investments in skills, Indigenous post-secondary education, scholarships and fellowships, research and student mobility. \u201cThe budget investments in skills and work-integrated learning, Indigenous students and international mobility will create new capacity in the university sector and provide unique opportunities for our students,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":53997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54687"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54692,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54687\/revisions\/54692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}