{"id":240020,"date":"2019-12-13T23:22:53","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T04:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=240020"},"modified":"2025-01-29T08:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T13:32:10","slug":"jason-kenneys-christmas-gift-to-post-secondary-students-a-7-tuition-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/12\/13\/jason-kenneys-christmas-gift-to-post-secondary-students-a-7-tuition-hike\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Kenney&#8217;s Christmas gift to post-secondary students? A 7% tuition hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_240021\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-240021\" style=\"width: 1440px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1440px-Athabasca_Hall_Sidewalk_16739586095.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-240021\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1440px-Athabasca_Hall_Sidewalk_16739586095.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1440px-Athabasca_Hall_Sidewalk_16739586095.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1440px-Athabasca_Hall_Sidewalk_16739586095-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1440px-Athabasca_Hall_Sidewalk_16739586095-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1440px-Athabasca_Hall_Sidewalk_16739586095-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-240021\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: The path between Athabasca Hall and the University Club, covered in a carpet of elm and poplar leaves. (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=79877068\">Photo By daryl_mitchell from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada &#8211; Athabasca Hall Sidewalk, CC BY-SA 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EDMONTON &#8211; Athabasca University students will be paying seven per cent higher tuition as a direct result of the UCP\u2019s budget, said the University\u2019s Provost and VP Academic Matthew Prineas in an email to students.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The email sent on Friday afternoon says that the seven per cent increase would take effect in September 2020 to help address \u201cuncertainty around budgets and funding in the coming years.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy flomax online <a href=\"https:\/\/chinaacucenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/pdf\/flomax.html\">https:\/\/chinaacucenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/pdf\/flomax.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p>\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The email goes on to describe how the UCP\u2019s budget has forced the University to repurpose $6.7 million internally for the 2021 fiscal year.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy cefixime online <a href=\"https:\/\/chinaacucenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/pdf\/cefixime.html\">https:\/\/chinaacucenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/pdf\/cefixime.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cRight before Christmas, students are finding out what Jason Kenney\u2019s .<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy elavil online <a href=\"https:\/\/chinaacucenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/pdf\/elavil.html\">https:\/\/chinaacucenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/pdf\/elavil.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p>7-billion corporate giveaway is costing them and their families,\u201d said David Eggen, NDP Critic for Advanced Education. \u201cA seven per cent tuition hike in addition to the thousands of dollars in extra costs this government is piling on is a tremendous burden to add to students and families heading into the holiday season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>David Eggen is available for interviews upon request.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDMONTON &#8211; Athabasca University students will be paying seven per cent higher tuition as a direct result of the UCP\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":240021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-news","mauthors-albertas-ndp-caucus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240020","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=240020"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286735,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240020\/revisions\/286735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}