Canadian Society for Molecular Biosciences (CSMB), Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Department of Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.
Biochem Cell Biol. 2024 Oct 1;102(5):346-350. doi: 10.1139/bcb-2024-0029. Epub 2024 Aug 27.
After 20 years of stagnation, federal scholarships have finally been increased within the new budget of the Canadian government. Tuition fees, inflation, and costs of living kept rising, which has resulted a rising number of graduate students in the life sciences living below poverty line, despite working far more than 40 h a week on science research in Canada. This does not only negatively affect the students research projects and thus science and innovation in Canada, but also their downstream decisions on whether to continue a research career in Canada and what jobs and economic endeavors to pursue. Graduate students are not just a line item in the budgets of universities, but integral for science and innovation, as well as the future high-quality personnel of the country. This importance should be reflected in all stipends and salaries of graduate students, not just the ones with a government scholarship.
经过 20 年的停滞不前，加拿大政府的新预算终于增加了联邦奖学金。学费、通货膨胀和生活成本不断上涨，导致越来越多的生命科学研究生生活在贫困线以下，尽管他们在加拿大每周的科研工作时间远远超过 40 小时。这不仅对学生的研究项目，从而对加拿大的科学和创新产生负面影响，而且对他们是否继续在加拿大从事研究职业以及从事何种工作和经济努力的下游决策产生负面影响。研究生不仅仅是大学预算中的一个项目，对于科学和创新以及国家未来的高素质人才来说也是不可或缺的。这种重要性应该反映在所有研究生的津贴和工资中，而不仅仅是那些获得政府奖学金的研究生。
