My belief is that the allocation of funds through bodies such as Mitacs and NSERC has been crucial to the growth of STEM at McMaster and at the other universities I've seen.
There is significant funding that exists that students are not made aware of, and whether that comes down to the government needing to speak with the universities more or the universities needing to step up in order to let the students know that this funding is available.... I think that is one of the largest missteps that seems to exist, personally, as a graduate student.
Beyond that, I'm not too sure if—