{"id":82,"date":"2011-08-02T09:11:02","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T09:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/?p=82"},"modified":"2019-05-21T14:15:37","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T13:15:37","slug":"public-statement-on-tuition-fees-rise-and-cuts-in-higher-education-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2011\/08\/02\/public-statement-on-tuition-fees-rise-and-cuts-in-higher-education-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Public statement on tuition fees rise and cuts in higher education funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On December 9th, 2010, the House of Commons passed a motion that will see tuition fees for UK and EU students rise to an unprecedented level.<\/p>\n<p>The School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research condemns the tuition fee increases, the cuts to the Education Maintenance Allowance, and the proposed 80% cut to the University Teaching Grant. The School affirms its commitment to fostering an open, critically engaged learning environment that is accessible to students from a diverse range of backgrounds.<\/p>\n<p>We also express our commitment to resisting the further and ongoing privatisation of higher education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 9th, 2010, the House of Commons passed a motion that will see tuition fees for UK and EU students rise to an unprecedented &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2011\/08\/02\/public-statement-on-tuition-fees-rise-and-cuts-in-higher-education-funding\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[124],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4706,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/4706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}