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Finance committee No. The Vanier scholarships have been wonderful. The Banting scholarships have been wonderful. There's no question about that. The university community as a whole, and the University of Manitoba, are very supportive of all of those measures you've outlined. What we're suggestin
October 16th, 2012Committee meeting
John Alho
Finance committee Well, the core in this context would be the university research. All of them are important—there's no question about it—but we need to continue to make those investments in the granting councils and CFI. The long-term impact on the competitiveness of the country is significant. T
October 16th, 2012Committee meeting
John Alho
Finance committee Certainly. In terms of investment research, are we doing well? Yes, we're doing well. Can we do better? Absolutely. Do we need to do better to compete internationally? Yes, we do. In terms of training programs, the federal government does administer some training programs in p
October 16th, 2012Committee meeting
John Alho
Finance committee Yes, that's correct. Those are definitely significant investments, and we were very supportive of them and continue to be very supportive of them. My comments were suggesting that we need to continue that level of investment. I acknowledged that budget 2012 and other measures w
October 16th, 2012Committee meeting
John Alho
Finance committee The business council?
October 16th, 2012Committee meeting
John Alho
Finance committee That's correct.
October 16th, 2012Committee meeting
John Alho
Finance committee Yes, it is very helpful.
October 16th, 2012Committee meeting
John Alho
Finance committee My comments weren't intended to take away from any of those measures. The urban aboriginal strategy is a significant step as well. It's challenging at times to work within the urban aboriginal strategy; our experience with it has been that it's been difficult to access those doll
October 16th, 2012Committee meeting
John Alho
Finance committee Oh no, we're quite familiar, absolutely—
October 16th, 2012Committee meeting
John Alho
Finance committee I would tend to agree as well. There is a lot that can be done, such as additional investments in partnership programming. Take the Connect program and the Engage program that are coming out of NSERC, for example. For relatively small amounts of dollars, new SMEs that have had no
October 16th, 2012Committee meeting
John Alho
Finance committee One of the leading determinants to accessibility at university is the history of families who have gone through the university system. That tends to be the largest single determinant of whether someone goes on to university or not. Unfortunately, in our aboriginal communities we
October 16th, 2012Committee meeting
John Alho
Finance committee The University of Manitoba has over 3,000 international students from nearly 100 countries. These students bring different perspectives to our campus and contribute to the local economy. To attract the best and brightest from abroad, our first step is the coordination of market
October 16th, 2012Committee meeting
John Alho
Finance committee Thank you, Madam Chair. Good afternoon. I'd like to start by thanking members on behalf of Dr. Barnard, president of the University of Manitoba, for your kind invitation to appear before the committee. He sends his regrets for not being able to personally join us here today. Fi
October 16th, 2012Committee meeting
John Alho