{"id":575,"date":"2012-12-10T15:32:01","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T15:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/cuts-and-delays-starving-students-out-of-education-crowe\/"},"modified":"2012-12-10T15:32:01","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T15:32:01","slug":"cuts-and-delays-starving-students-out-of-education-crowe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/cuts-and-delays-starving-students-out-of-education-crowe\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuts and Delays Starving Students Out of Education &#8211; Crowe"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Cuts and Delays Starving Students Out of Education &#8211;\u00a0Crowe<\/h2>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sinn  F\u00e9in representative Se\u00e1n Crowe TD, has said that cuts and the long  delays in accessing grants are literally starving students out of  education.<\/p>\n<div>The Dublin South West\u00a0TD was responding to the latest budget cuts  and delay in 3rd level students accessing their grants through the SUSI  system that is months behind in processing grant applications.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe said<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cDespite  all of the hardship that students and their families have faced over  recent months as a result of the flawed SUSI system and the resulting  debacle in processing their grants the Education Minister Ruairi Quinn  has pressed ahead with increasing the student contribution fee.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;These cuts combined with long delays are literally  starving many students out of further education and making it  increasingly difficult for ordinary families to support their children&#8217;s  access to higher education.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;The \u20ac250 increase in the Third Level  contribution fee to \u20ac2,500 will hit\u00a0 many students \u00a0and their families  particularly hard and with additional hike of \u20ac250\u00a0to made \u00a0in 2014 and  2015 many simply will\u00a0 not be able to afford to attend college.<\/div>\n<div>\u201cIt is a decision that will\u00a0 make access even more difficult and result  in\u00a0less \u00a0students from lower income families.breaking the further  education ceiling.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Minister  Quinn&#8217;s\u00a0budget\u00a0decision to reduce by 3% the eligibility threshold for  student grants\u00a0 is\u00a0\u00a0estimated to affect about 8% of students.<\/div>\n<div>\u201cThis means thousands of additional\u00a0 students will be denied the  essential financial supports that are necessary for them to participate  in higher education.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cIn my opinion these  increases of fees and changes in the eligibility criteria will succeed  in making access to college much too costly for many students and\u00a0 makes  a mockery of the concept of free, universal access to third  level education.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cuts and Delays Starving Students Out of Education &#8211;\u00a0Crowe \u00a0 Sinn F\u00e9in representative Se\u00e1n Crowe TD, has said that cuts and the long delays in accessing grants are literally starving students out of education. The Dublin South West\u00a0TD was responding to the latest budget cuts and delay in 3rd level students accessing their grants through [&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-575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575","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=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}