{"id":1825,"date":"2012-05-21T18:05:20","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T17:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=1825"},"modified":"2012-05-21T18:05:20","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T17:05:20","slug":"no-such-thing-as-a-free-education-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2012\/05\/21\/no-such-thing-as-a-free-education-after-all\/","title":{"rendered":"No such thing as a free education after all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/node\/21555559\">Economist<\/a> reports that the Scottish government is having to raid FE budgets (and other unspecified pots) to keep its universities afloat.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Scotland may be able to write education policies, but it is still subject to financing decisions made in Westminster. \u00a0University budgets for teaching are to be slashed by 40%, a gap that will be filled in England by raised tuition fees. \u00a0In Scotland, other pots are being plundered to ensure universities stay competitive with England\u2019s. \u00a0A three-year funding settlement agreed in February will boost university coffers \u2014 but will cut spending on further education colleges and mature students by 14% and raid other budgets.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There's also a plan, it seems, to impose a management charge \u2013 that is, a fee \u2013 on a select group of foreigners \u00a0\u2013 that is, EU nationals \u2013 if the Eurocrats can be squared. \u00a0The paper notes ...<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The Scottish Parliament has identified a \u00a339 billion hole in its budget between now and 2025. \u00a0The price of free education is rising.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What larks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week's Economist reports that the Scottish government is having to raid FE budgets (and other unspecified pots) to keep its universities afloat. Scotland may be able to write education policies, but it is still subject to financing decisions made...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}