{"id":4752,"date":"2008-11-18T08:34:52","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T16:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2008\/11\/venezuela-iran-team-up-on-university-plan\/"},"modified":"2008-11-18T08:34:52","modified_gmt":"2008-11-18T16:34:52","slug":"venezuela-iran-team-up-on-university-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2008\/11\/venezuela-iran-team-up-on-university-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela, Iran team up on university plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AP: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5hMt4kLz-pHgt5p-bk-ZORH-w68AAD94GUQI82\">Venezuela, Iran team up on university plan<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) \u2014 Venezuela and Iran plan to start a new university program in the South American country with a focus on teaching socialist principles.<\/p>\n<p>Venezuela&#8217;s government says it plans to establish the University of Civilizations under accords recently signed with Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Minister for Academic Development Tibisay Hung says the program will begin in Caracas at the existing, tuition-free Bolivarian University.<\/p>\n<p>Hung tells the state-run Bolivarian News Agency that the aim is to promote discussion of &#8220;21st century socialism.&#8221; Venezuela announced the program on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>President Hugo Chavez is promising to lead Venezuela toward socialism, and in recent years has built increasingly close ties with Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AP: Venezuela, Iran team up on university plan CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) \u2014 Venezuela and Iran plan to start a new university program in the South American country with a focus on teaching socialist principles. Venezuela&#8217;s government says it plans to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2008\/11\/venezuela-iran-team-up-on-university-plan\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}