{"id":327,"date":"2011-11-24T18:12:25","date_gmt":"2011-11-24T18:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/latest-education-cut-sends-out-appalling-message\/"},"modified":"2011-11-24T18:12:25","modified_gmt":"2011-11-24T18:12:25","slug":"latest-education-cut-sends-out-appalling-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/latest-education-cut-sends-out-appalling-message\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Education Cut Sends Out Appalling Message"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gmail_quote\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"><strong>Latest Education Cut Sends Out Appalling Message<br \/><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_quote\">Tallaght  based Sinn Fein TD Se\u00e1n Crowe TD responding to reports in the media  that Education Minister and Labour TD Ruairi Quinn proposes is to cut  grants for Masters Degrees\u00a0 said that the clear message it will send\u00a0 to  people with low and or on middle incomes is that post graduate degrees  are no longer open to you.<\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_quote\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_quote\">Se\u00e1n Crowe TD\u00a0 is the Sinn Fein party spokesperson in Leinster House.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Crowe said:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The  average fees for Masters degrees are now in excess of 6000 euros. Many  universities are developing such degrees to cover the shortfall in  government funding for higher education.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is increasingly limited\u00a0 or no real\u00a0 prospect of university  scholarships or fee reductions on these programmes.\u00a0 Even with a local  authority grant a student will still need to raise up to 10,000 euros to  cover their living costs while undertaking crucial up-skilling at  postgraduate level. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the same time Employers are already highlighting a shortage of people with post-graduate qualifications in many areas. <\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Ending  these grants will say to those on low to middle incomes that  postgraduate degrees and the jobs associated with them are no longer  open for you. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a disgraceful position to be advanced by any Education  Minister but from a Labour minister it is quite simply appalling.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest Education Cut Sends Out Appalling Message Tallaght based Sinn Fein TD Se\u00e1n Crowe TD responding to reports in the media that Education Minister and Labour TD Ruairi Quinn proposes is to cut grants for Masters Degrees\u00a0 said that the clear message it will send\u00a0 to people with low and or on middle incomes is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}