{"id":405,"date":"2012-05-31T12:46:33","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T12:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/assessing-capital-assets-and-income-for-student-grants-unfair-deputy-sean-crowe\/"},"modified":"2012-05-31T12:46:33","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T12:46:33","slug":"assessing-capital-assets-and-income-for-student-grants-unfair-deputy-sean-crowe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/assessing-capital-assets-and-income-for-student-grants-unfair-deputy-sean-crowe\/","title":{"rendered":"Assessing capital assets and income for student grants unfair \u2013 Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\"><strong>Assessing capital assets and income for student grants unfair \u2013 Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">Sinn F\u00e9in Education Spokesperson Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe has voiced concerns at proposals which if implemented, would include the assessment of capital assets and income when means testing student grants in the 2013-2014 academic year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">A summer report proposing inclusion of capital assets as well as income in the case of applicants for student grants is to be presented to Education Minister Ruair\u00ed Quinn.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">Deputy Crowe said: \u201cIf the proposals that were announced in the Budget include assessing capital and productive assets for student grant applications, this will unfairly penalise farmers, landowners and people who are self-employed. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">\u201cIt would be a further blow to rural Ireland as it would exclude many students from farming backgrounds from availing of grants to help pay of their third level education. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">\u201cThis retrograde step fails to take into account a number of factors, including how farming incomes and related assets fluctuate on a monthly basis. Put simply, it would be a very unfair way of assessing applicants and would be yet another barrier to students wishing to further their studies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">\u201cThere are worrying signs that the Minister is preparing to renegade on his pre-election pledges not to introduce third level fees. This week we had the Higher Education Authority (HEA) warning that an annual college fee of up to \u20ac6000 would be necessary to meet the projected increase in demand for third level places.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">\u201cThese are worrying times for the third level Irish education sector,\u201d concluded Deputy Crowe.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assessing capital assets and income for student grants unfair \u2013 Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe Sinn F\u00e9in Education Spokesperson Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe has voiced concerns at proposals which if implemented, would include the assessment of capital assets and income when means testing student grants in the 2013-2014 academic year. A summer report proposing inclusion of capital assets [&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-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","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=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}