{"id":10481,"date":"2014-05-16T04:06:54","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T20:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=10481"},"modified":"2014-05-15T23:07:34","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T15:07:34","slug":"manitoba-government-flunks-proposed-big-fee-hike-for-university-grad-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/05\/16\/manitoba-government-flunks-proposed-big-fee-hike-for-university-grad-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Manitoba government flunks proposed big fee hike for university grad students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/shutterstock_140175433.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10482\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/shutterstock_140175433.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock_140175433\" width=\"960\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/shutterstock_140175433.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/shutterstock_140175433-288x300.jpg 288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">WINNIPEG\u2014Manitoba\u2019s Education and Advanced Learning minister has told the University of Manitoba to withdraw a proposed increase of more than 326 per cent in its continuing fees for graduate students.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">James Allum says the requested hike is contrary to everything the NDP government has done in the last 15 years to make university accessible and affordable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">The NDP government had rejected similar U of M proposals for huge graduate continuing-fee jumps in 2003 and 2010.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">The fees are paid by students working on their master\u2019s and PhD theses after finishing all course and program work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">The U of M told its graduate students May 6 that it hopes for provincial approval to increase continuing fees to $3,000 from $703.15 a year by September 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">Jay Doering, dean of graduate studies, said earlier this week the U of M wants parity with the University of Winnipeg\u2019s continuing fees and wants to close the gap with the other large universities in Canada.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WINNIPEG\u2014Manitoba\u2019s Education and Advanced Learning minister has told the University of Manitoba to withdraw a proposed increase of more than &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":10482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}