Thank you.
There are a number of issues we find with graduate students. One is the increasing global competitiveness. We are seeing that universities in other parts of the world--India, China--are able to retain their own graduates and then have their students engage in post-secondary education. So that's one issue.
I think on the more local issues and the things that we are able to do something more about, one of the difficulties we have is lack of funding to provide post-graduate students with sufficient resources. These are people who have completed one degree. The kind of stipend they would normally be allowed under the federal funding programs that are available through research would be about $18,500 a year, and these are people who are at an age where even if they're living on their own and haven't yet started a family, that's not a living amount of money.
We have that difficulty. Some of that difficulty has been alleviated by the ability for our international students to work off campus, and I think that's a key initiative and needs to be broadened and continued. But then we get into the difficulty that my colleagues at the other end of the table were speaking about, where if you're both trying to do a full-time post-graduate degree and work off campus, you have difficulty.