{"id":6831,"date":"2009-07-13T09:59:52","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T17:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=6831"},"modified":"2009-07-13T09:59:52","modified_gmt":"2009-07-13T17:59:52","slug":"south-africa-moves-toward-free-universities-for-poor-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/07\/south-africa-moves-toward-free-universities-for-poor-students\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa moves toward free universities for poor students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mail &#038; Guardian:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mg.co.za\/article\/2009-07-08-one-step-closer-to-free-varsities\"> One step closer to free varsities<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Free education for poor university students moved sharply up the government&#8217;s priorities last week with the announcement of a ministerial committee to advise Minister of Higher Education and Training Blade Nzimande on how to provide it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mail &#038; Guardian: One step closer to free varsities Free education for poor university students moved sharply up the government&#8217;s priorities last week with the announcement of a ministerial committee to advise Minister of Higher Education and Training Blade Nzimande &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/07\/south-africa-moves-toward-free-universities-for-poor-students\/\">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":[2251,2258],"tags":[4572,266,2539],"class_list":["post-6831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budgets-funding","category-equity","tag-free-universities","tag-south-africa","tag-tuition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6831","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=6831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6832,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6831\/revisions\/6832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}