{"id":101,"date":"2007-01-30T18:04:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-30T18:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/insidersed.wordpress.com\/2007\/01\/30\/inkless-insiders\/"},"modified":"2007-01-30T18:04:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-30T18:04:00","slug":"inkless-insiders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/2007\/01\/30\/inkless-insiders\/","title":{"rendered":"Inkless Insiders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Without a doubt, my favorite political journo is the intrepid <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.macleans.ca\/paulwells\/\">Paul Wells<\/a>; I get downright giddy when he posts about University affairs, which he does with some regularity.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s post is noteworthy.  It explains quite succinctly why tuition reduction is a profoundly misguided way to increase access, and how lower tuition actually keeps the under-privileged <span style=\"font-style:italic\">out <\/span>of universities.  Call that access? (<a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.macleans.ca\/paulwells\/archives\/week_2007_01_28-2007_02_03.asp#003035\">Click here<\/a> for the article.)<\/p>\n<p>The issue has been raised by Quebec Universities, trying to end that province&#8217;s freeze, and using BC as an example.  Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/LAC.20070124.TUITION24\/TPStory\/\">G&amp;M story<\/a> here.<\/p>\n<p>PS &#8211; Please visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/radicalbeer.blogspot.com\">Radical Beer Tribune<\/a>.  We like them today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Without a doubt, my favorite political journo is the intrepid Paul Wells; I get downright giddy when he posts about University affairs, which he does with some regularity. Today&#8217;s post is noteworthy. It explains quite succinctly why tuition reduction is a profoundly misguided way to increase access, and how lower tuition actually keeps the under-privileged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":654,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5029],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ams-elections-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/654"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}