{"id":31734,"date":"2017-01-11T06:18:49","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T06:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/mps-request-government-revise-to-university\/"},"modified":"2017-01-12T07:54:37","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T07:54:37","slug":"mps-request-government-revise-to-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/mps-request-government-revise-to-university\/","title":{"rendered":"MPs request Ministry to revise university bursaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Members of Parliament have requested the Ministry of Education to revise students\u2019 monthly living allowance as the current Rwf 25,000 is considered inadequate as per the prevailing market rates. }<\/p>\n<p>The MPs raised the concern yesterday as they approved the draft law establishing Rwanda Education Board (REB) with the other draft law establishing the High Education Council (HEC). The laws also grant responsibilities and structure of the same entities. <\/p>\n<p>The draft laws mandate HEC with disbursing, managing and recovering loans of students from higher learning institutions while REB shall  remain with duties of promoting Early Childhood,  primary and secondary school education. <\/p>\n<p>MPs also   advised the Ministry to carry out a survey to establish the sufficient amount for students\u2019 survival. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cA student receives a bursary of Rwf 25,000. We know that our country is poor but Rwanda has moral values. If it commits to doing something it executes it properly. As far as I am concerned, offering Rwf 25,000 from which a student gets monthly accommodation and food is a problem considering to the cost of living,\u201d said MP Mporanyi Th\u00e9obald. <\/p>\n<p>This, Hon. Mporanyi observed, has negative consequences on students\u2019 conduct, negatively impact students\u2019 academic performance and therefore called for reasonable revision.  <\/p>\n<p>MP  Nikuze Nura echoed the same concerns. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cStudents told us that they have the problem of under-feeding which is realized in universities and secondary schools,,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Education, Dr Musafiri Malimba Papias said that the matter of bursary will be analyzed further. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBursary offers stand at 99% for local and  overseas  students received on time.,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-17553 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/minisitiri_musafiri_ubwo_yari_mu_nteko_ishinga_amategeko.jpg\" alt=\"The Minister of Education, Dr Musafiri Malimba Papias \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-17552 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/visi_perezida_w_umutwe_w_abadepite_jeanne_d_arc_uwimanimpaye_niwe_wayoboye_inteko_rusange_kuri_uyu_wa_kabiri.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-17551 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/716f6dd4ae8154d8fc05b081b8cee4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Members of Parliament have requested the Ministry of Education to revise students\u2019 monthly living allowance as the current Rwf 25,000 is considered inadequate as per the prevailing market rates. } The MPs raised the concern yesterday as they approved the draft law establishing Rwanda Education Board (REB) with the other draft law establishing the High [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-31734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31734"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=31734"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=31734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}