{"id":5345,"date":"2009-03-02T15:27:02","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T23:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=5345"},"modified":"2009-03-02T15:27:02","modified_gmt":"2009-03-02T23:27:02","slug":"uk-poor-still-shunning-universities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/03\/uk-poor-still-shunning-universities\/","title":{"rendered":"UK: Poor still shunning universities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/education\/7911211.stm\">Poor still shunning universities<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Universities say they do try to draw in a wider range of students<\/p>\n<p>The government has given universities \u00a3392m to get more working class youngsters in England to attend but progress has been slow, MPs say.<\/p>\n<p>The Commons public accounts committee says it is &#8220;dismayed&#8221; the government seems to have little idea what they have done with the money. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: Poor still shunning universities Universities say they do try to draw in a wider range of students The government has given universities \u00a3392m to get more working class youngsters in England to attend but progress has been slow, MPs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/03\/uk-poor-still-shunning-universities\/\">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":[1288941,1288930,2573],"class_list":["post-5345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","tag-budgets-funding","tag-government","tag-working-class"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5345","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=5345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5346,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5345\/revisions\/5346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}