{"id":8353,"date":"2010-08-18T21:11:18","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T01:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=8353"},"modified":"2010-08-18T21:12:18","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T01:12:18","slug":"new-private-university-signals-drive-to-privatise-higher-education-in-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/08\/18\/new-private-university-signals-drive-to-privatise-higher-education-in-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"New private university signals drive to privatise higher education in Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/articles\/2010\/aug2010\/priv-a14.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>New private university signals drive to privatise higher education in Britain<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from sott.net by Zach Reed<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">BPP, a private company that possesses 14 sites around the UK providing law and business degrees, was granted &#8220;university college&#8221; status in July, creating the first private university in the UK for 30 years. The decision signals the coalition government&#8217;s drive to privatise higher education.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Massive spending cuts brought forward by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat government, combined with rising youth unemployment, has seen 200,000 students denied a university place this year. It is in this context that calls have been made to privatise higher education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New private university signals drive to privatise higher education in Britain &#8212; from sott.net by Zach Reed BPP, a private company that possesses 14 sites around the UK providing law and business degrees, was granted &#8220;university college&#8221; status in July, creating the first private university in the UK for 30 years. The decision signals the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,35,3,38],"tags":[52,600,585,566,588],"class_list":["post-8353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-side-of-he","category-game-changing-environment","category-higher-education","category-uk","tag-budgetary","tag-business-side-of-he","tag-game-changing-environment","tag-higher-education","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8353"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8355,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8353\/revisions\/8355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}