In 1911, Canadian universities came togetherAssociation of Universities and Colleges Canada, (n.d.) Retrieved on November 23, 2011 from to plan for the Congress of Empire Universities to be held in 1912. In 1917, this group of Canadian universities was formally known as the National Conference of Canadian Universities (NCCU)Association of Universities and Colleges Canada (n.d.) Retrieved on November 23, 2011 from The NCCU 'successfully lobbied the Federal Government to financially support higher education' and with the mass entry of post-World War II veterans, federal funding for higher education was secured in the late 1950s. The Federal Government decided on a policy to pay the provinces per student in higher education in each province. Nova Scotia had a smaller population than other provinces but had a large number of out-of-province and international students who did not remain in the province after graduation. The large number of universities meant that funding was very thinly distributed across the universities.
