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Not surprisingly, participants saw this as an area where NSERC could have a significant impact and offered a number of suggestions to NSERC. For example, participants encouraged NSERC to increase the number and associated dollar value of scholarships and fellowships available to students in the NSE. In Montreal, the lunch speaker, Dr. Robert Lacroix, Rector at the Université de Montréal, sparked interesting discussions in the afternoon by suggesting that the size of scholarships to Ph.D. students should be doubled as a priority matter. He indicated that this would significantly and positively impact the perception associated with doing postgraduate work and would decrease the time to completion. He felt this should occur before expanding the number of such scholarships.
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