{"id":932,"date":"2011-09-28T10:06:15","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T09:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=932"},"modified":"2011-09-28T10:06:15","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T09:06:15","slug":"endangered-species-spotted-in-edinburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2011\/09\/28\/endangered-species-spotted-in-edinburgh\/","title":{"rendered":"Endangered species spotted in Edinburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A curious piece in today\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/education\/universityeducation\/8790523\/Angry-students-attempt-to-disrupt-Princess-Royal-speech.html\">Telegraph<\/a> about a speech by the Princess Royal\u2019s being \u2018disrupted\u2019 (their emphasis). \u00a0She was in town to take over from her dad as Chancellor and was presenting JKR with some award or other for gifting the university 10 million pounds of the book-buying public\u2019s money for a research centre \u2013 generosity which I do not disparage. \u00a0The paper reports that the protesters held banners stating:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>If you can afford a Princess, you can afford my degree<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Education, not educatianne<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Whilst the second of these is just baffling \u2013 particularly the comma \u2013 the first is more intriguing. \u00a0Presumably there were no Scottish (or EU) students in this protest as they don't have to afford anything so un-cool as tuition fees, so maybe it was the (increasingly) disgruntled English students, who do. \u00a0 However, given that Edinburgh proposes to charge English students \u00a336000 for its degrees (because they are 4 years long) it will be intriguing to see how many now actually volunteer to be fleeced in this egregiously cynical fashion \u2013 particularly as the fees are clearly meant to compensate for the inadequate funding that universities in North Britain receive from the Scottish Executive. \u00a0 Thus, perhaps the incoherent cry that emanated from round the corner of the university's Old College (the protesters were kept well out of sight) was the death rattle of a very endangered species indeed. \u00a0I, for one, rather hope so: it is no more than this shameless nonsense deserves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A curious piece in today\u2019s Telegraph about a speech by the Princess Royal\u2019s being \u2018disrupted\u2019 (their emphasis). \u00a0She was in town to take over from her dad as Chancellor and was presenting JKR with some award or other for gifting...<\/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-932","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\/932","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=932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}